Perched in the Sky, Rihanna Toasts Fendi

On Friday night, Fendi celebrated a store opening on Madison Avenue. Martha Stewart took a picture with Karl Lagerfeld using a new camera. But she refused to take a selfie; she handed the camera off to someone else. “It’s a better picture this way,” she said. ”

Have you ever been this high before?

That’s what a reporter asked Rihanna on Friday night. She was on the 83rd floor of One57, the gargantuan new skyscraper and residential building on West 57th Street, one of those towers responsible for the terrible shadows hitting Central Park. She had a glass of red wine, sloshing it back and forth. When she was asked that question, she doubled over. She laughed hard. Very hard. She was standing in a doorway to a makeshift living room. Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld had just exited.

The reporter rephrased. Have you ever been this high in a building before? You know, 83 stories high?

“We were talking about the apartment earlier,” Rihanna said. “I didn’t get to see all of it.”

Into his 80s, no less.

“I didn’t even know about 80s,” she said. “I was going to say 60s.”

So how do you sustain yourself for that long? To be that successful?

“You have to have some stuff to do,” she said (she didn’t say “stuff”; same thing as Rihanna). “You wake up every morning with this on your mind. He’s real. He’s a real person.”

In a $60 million apartment.

The New York Times