Did you know the designer behind it?

Three months ago, designer Adam Selman created a dress that will be remembered for decades to come: the sheer crystal-encrusted gown that Rihanna wore to accept her CFDA Fashion Icon Award.

Known for that daring high-wattage glamour—the look caused a #nipplegate fiasco after all—Selman’s spring 2015 collection showed a different side to the designer. “I think our ideas overlap naturally. I’m trying to make a differentiation from my costumes designs,” said Selman. “I want to make sure I have my own voice with my label.”

Selman’s singular vision came through loud and clear in a series of tweed mini overall dresses, sweatshirts embellished with pearls, and trapeze ruffle dresses  (a classic good-girl uniform) and quite the change from his Bad Gal RiRi body-baring silhouettes. “I tried to take that inspiration of the nostalgic look of the eighties and seventies and transform it into the modern girl,” said..........................
Selman. “I think more than I’ve done before, it is more easy relaxed and less sex, sex, sex than the first two presentations.” Adding to that chic tomboy sensibility, there were wide-leg linen pants and jersey dresses that closed the show.
And yet even as the lights went down on the last looks, it was clear that the show wasn’t over. Just minutes after he took his bow, Rihanna arrived, creating a frenzy of flashing bulbs. Overall though, the real showstopper here was Selman, a designer who knows what a cool girl wants, whether she’s center stage or not.