Wow. Nicki Minaj covers the Art & Fashion issue of W Magazine giving us her unique version of 18th Century Style (that thing hanging from her eye must hurt). Within the magazine there are more portraits of Nicki Minaj in various period pieces. My favorite is where she lets her hair down in the beautiful feminine white dress.

These depictions are courtesy of Francesco Vezzoli who says:

“I wanted to play with the public image of a female hip-hop star,” said the Italian artist. “During my entire career, I have always been fascinated by powerful women in history. I have spent a lot of time researching the ways they were represented in art and how their images were used to mold the public imagination—and to convey aesthetic and philosophical ideas about beauty and sexual desire. My main interest has been to link the historical artistic approach to female representation to contemporary icons of the media era.”

So what do you think? Do you like Nicki's version of 18th century style?

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