What is going on with the lovely Ms. Rihanna Fenty? We all know the media storm and awfulness of what happened with Chris Brown, but has she gone off the deep end with her fashion sense?

First she continues her trend of loving strong shoulders, but with this unfortunate extreme puff-shouldered Dolce & Gabbana tux. The hair is doing this huge, combover awkward thing, and she looks … dare I say it? Slightly Michael Jackson-ish. Scary. She’s a tiny girl swallowed up in fabric and hair. I give her girlprops for trying it but the YSL patent pumps are tediously boring. Who was the stylist who told her she was immune to fashion disasters of the bland and yet overdone variety?

Then at the Derek Lam opening in Soho:

J’adore Senor Derek Lam and I think it’s especially cute that fellow Asian design fiend Philip Lim showed up to support him (along with everyone else and their nephew), and the suit is chic and cut in a lovely way, with Choo accessories to boot, but she’s starting to project something weird. You know when celebs become too famous, and then undergo something traumatic, and start to wall themselves off from the public? I think this is happening to Rihanna. The superprotective outfits, the masculine suits, the big shades, the crazy hair. She looks … old. Too old for her 21 years, and unhappy. Where are the young brights, the playful rocker chic, of Rihanna yesteryear? It’s spring!

I love a suit on a woman, I love her music and style, and I’m not trying to dog a woman who’s gone through a horrible thing, but the fashion is scaring me. And I miss her amazing shoes of days past! If she starts showing up in things like this EJ piece I am going to start throwing down the woman-cum-gay-male-or-transsexual gauntlet. I am only half-joking too.