A few days ago, we were surprised with Drake’s cover on The FADER’s 100th issue, all of the details of which you can take a look at here. Now, another huge announcement about the issue is made.

Rihanna is the other cover. It sees her take a self portrait and actually not give an interview for the main story. We hope R8 is coming sooner rather than later, but no news in that aspect.

Read an excerpt below and the full cover story here.

If this were a normal story, I’d tell you what she ordered if we’d gone to Giorgio Baldis, her favorite L.A. restaurant, even though she pretty much always gets the same thing (fried calamari and pasta with tomato sauce). I’d tell you if she smelled like Reb’l Fleur, her old fragrance, or, if she’s wearing RiRi, and what that smells like. The story wouldn’t be so much about what she said in response to my questions—Rihanna is media-trained—it would be about registering any silences. Or flickers of eyelid. Or churlishness. Or evasiveness. It would be reading tea leaves. It makes you wonder why any savvy celebrity would ever agree to an interview, and understand why in this case Rihanna did not.