Hip hop rapper Nicki Minaj graces the cover of W magazine’s Art issue November 2011. The photos were taken by famed artist Francesco Vezzoli. The artist states that he has always been fascinated with female hip hop stars and wanted to turn Nicki into an “18th-century courtesan.”
Nicki Minaj Elle Magazine Cover Shoot
“I wanted to play with the public image of a female hip-hop star. 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.”
Nicki Minaj looks gorgeous and the W’s magazine is a creative masterpiece!
