Rihanna's cover photo for Rolling Stones magazine uses red prominently to match the magazine's branding and highlight her red hair, portraying her as a bold and sexual "bad girl." The typography, placement of her image, and phrase "strikes back" are designed to grab attention and signal the discussion of her personal life inside.

3. • This front covers colour
scheme is red white and
black keeping it plain but
bold. The colour red
shows some hint of
sexuality also highlighting
the colour of her
hair, therefore advertising
her brand (loud album).
Also, the rolling stones
heading always stays in
the colour red, so
Rihanna’s pictures helps
this look by adding extra
red to it.

4. • The same typography is
used for every magazine
making it recognisable to
the Rollingstones fans.
The sell lines are in bold
making them stand out
and also the main artist
names are the biggest
sub headings to highlight
how this magazine is
music based.

5. • Rihanna is dressed in
minimal clothing to
portray her bad girl
exterior and sexual
personality. This grabs
the male gaze creating
more buyers. This will
also give the viewer
some insight of the
subjects she will be
talking about in her
interview.

6. • Rihanna the main image is
slightly slanted over into the
left third in the viewing of
how the magazine's are
placed on the racks of the
shops. Rihanna’s hair is
covering the title of
‘Rollingstones’ but seeing as
they are both in red, they
don’t clash with each other.

7. • The phrase ‘strikes back’
relates to the picture as
she’s looking back towards
the viewer. Also there’s an
animalistic sound to the
word ‘strike’ as you
picture claws, this is a
metaphor that links to the
look of her hair styled as a
lions mane to create a
sexual stance yet again.