--- title: Rihanna is the New Face of Christian Dior description: It was just a matter of time canonical: https://time.com/3746562/rihanna-christian-dior/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-16T19:16:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:50.856Z og:title: Rihanna is the New Face of Christian Dior og:description: She’s the first black woman to be a brand ambassador for Dior og:url: https://time.com/3746562/rihanna-christian-dior/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36bdf1ab56bab090/698783ce3c163905d245248e/466420268-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=396&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 396 og:image:height: 223 og:image:alt: Rihanna promotes her new animated feature "Home" in New York City on March 15, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rihanna is the New Face of Christian Dior twitter:description: She’s the first black woman to be a brand ambassador for Dior twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36bdf1ab56bab090/698783ce3c163905d245248e/466420268-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=396&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rihanna Is the First Black Woman to be the Face of Christian Dior > Sponsored content. 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Rihanna promotes her new animated feature "Home" in New York City on March 15, 2015. Neilson Barnard—Getty Images by [InStyle](https://time.com/author/instyle/) ## InStyle Contributor Mar 16, 2015 7:16 PM UTC [Rihanna](http://news.instyle.com/category/celebrity/rihanna) has big news: She is the new face of [Christian Dior](http://www.instyle.com/instyle/lookoftheday/designer/0,,christian-dior,00.html)’s Secret Garden video campaign. The “Take a Bow” singer will star in the brand’s fourth video in the series, Christian Dior [confirmed to _WWD_](http://wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/rihanna-to-star-in-diors-latest-secret-garden-video-10095323/), and she joins the ranks of [Marion Cotillard](http://news.instyle.com/category/celebrity/marion-cotillard/) and [Jennifer Lawrence](http://news.instyle.com/category/celebrity/jennifer-lawrence/) as a face for the French company. The campaign has been shot by Steven Klein in Versailles, France, and Rihanna’s film is set for release later this year and will continue from [the third chapter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zy9IrEGopo), which boasts more than 9 million views on YouTube. We have little doubt that Rihanna will have trouble smashing those figures with her performance. Given that she’s a regular fixture in the Christian Dior front row and wore the brand for a recent performance of “[FourFiveSeconds](http://news.instyle.com/2015/02/03/rihanna-music-video-fourfiveseconds-kanye-west-paul-mccartney/),” some may have seen the announcement coming. By fronting the campaign, Rihanna is also making history since [she’s the first black woman](http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2015/03/13/rihanna-is-face-of-dior-melissa-mccarthy-website/) to be a brand ambassador for Dior. Not only is her role great news for diversity within the fashion industry, but it’s also further proof that 2015 belongs to Rihanna. She stars in her first animation, _Home_, this month, has recorded the soundtrack to accompany it, and is releasing her eighth studio album this year. _This_ [_article_](http://news.instyle.com/2015/03/16/christian-dior-rihanna-face-new-campaign-secret-garden/) _originally appeared on_ [_InStyle.com_](http://www.instyle.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3746562/rihanna-christian-dior/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3746562/rihanna-christian-dior/"},"headline":"Rihanna Is the First Black Woman to be the Face of Christian Dior","datePublished":"2015-03-16T19:16:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:50.856Z","description":"It was just a matter of time","url":"https://time.com/3746562/rihanna-christian-dior/","keywords":["Living","beauty","fashion"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36bdf1ab56bab090/698783ce3c163905d245248e/466420268-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"InStyle","jobTitle":"Contributor","url":"https://time.com/author/instyle/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36bdf1ab56bab090/698783ce3c163905d245248e/466420268-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rihanna promotes her new animated feature \"Home\" in New York City on March 15, 2015.","caption":"Rihanna promotes her new animated feature \"Home\" in New York City on March 15, 2015.","creditText":"Neilson Barnard—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3746562/rihanna-christian-dior/","name":"Rihanna Is the First Black Woman to be the Face of Christian Dior"}}]}] ```