Rihanna’s landed a major international campaign.

While Chanel, Prada and Louis Vuitton are re-living the 90’s, Gucci’s chosen the twenty-year-old pop star to front their new ad campaign for UNICEF just six months after her lauded performance at Gucci’s fall fashion week bash.

Rihanna, who’s posed for Clinique Happy, Covergirl and H&M’s “Fashion Against AIDS” campaign, will star in “Tattoo Heart”, a collection of ads for the children’s charity in which she’ll wear limited edition Gucci for UNICEF pieces.

Frida Giannini hand picked her because she, “felt a musician and a beautiful woman was the perfect icon for this campaign.”

True. And we’re all for a good cause. But is it wrong that we worry she’ll be contracted to wear Gucci on every red carpet and abandon the up and coming labels she’s been so good about supporting?

Stylists, take note!

Tuesday’s launch of Armani’s first beauty line for men has us thinking - who buys this stuff?

It’s been our experience (ahem), that men tend to just borrow their girlfriends’ products, often times a surreptitious act while in the shower.

But we keep reading about beauty lines intended specifically for men, especially by non-drugstore companies.

Clinique, Frederic Fekkai and Bliss are just a few beauty brands with products intended specifically “for men.” But we’ve never known any guys to actually buy themselves men’s beauty products. In fact, when we have seen guys buy skin care/hair stuff, we’ve seen them in Duane Reade, buying gender neutral options like Neutrogena.

We don’t know if this is an embarrassment of doing something “girly,” or if men’s products are sort of pointless, as if men’s skin and hair is really so much different from women’s, for whom most beauty products are made.

Do you buy men’s beauty products, either for yourself, or for a boyfriend? Or does it strike you as the same stuff but in darker packaging?

It looks like Clinique is trying to wipe the dust from its fragrance, Happy, just in time for the holidays.

They’re targeting a younger market, and they’re doing it rather quickly.

First we saw that Happy was the virtual give-away of the day on Facebook. Then we saw that you can have a custom bottle made with any picture you upload onto Clinique’s website. Now we hear that The Hills’ darling Whitney Port will be hanging out at NYC’s Bloomingdale’s this Friday in honor of Clinique’s Happy Day (yes, they’ve given it a day.)

Since the only person we’ve known to wear Happy is our mother, we’re not sure that this marketing ploy will work. But if the Clinique people can get the bottle a lengthy spot on Blair Waldorf’s dressing table, that’s another story…

More proof that Blair Waldorf and Emmy Rossum were separated at birth:

This photo from Clinique, which shows the operatic beauty schooling Kathleen Hazleton from Silver Springs, Oklahoma, in a makeup lesson.

The scene reminds us, a little too much, of Blair’s constant critiques on young Jenny in Gossip Girl. Emmy’s in a pouf dress; Kathleen’s in something simpler. Emmy’s high gloss; Kathleen’s makeup is easier. And there’s an odd glint in Emmy’s eye that could be interpreted as almost mischief - though we’re sure it’s just the awkwardness of the situation, where she’s being sponsored to give some girl she’s never met a makeover.

Still, there’s one more similarity we thought was pretty funny:

Just like Jenny / Taylor Momsen, Kathleen looks like she doesn’t need any makeup at all to be pretty!