Instagrams of the Week: Rihanna and the Summer Fur vs. the Summer Frock

As this week’s Instagram feed reinforced yet again, summer is the season of the dress—in particular, the sort of breezy, bohemian frock that’s barely made of more than a swatch of fabric, but still manages to make an impact. Take Olivia Wilde’s lemonade yellow peasant dress that flatters her baby bump. Snapping a mirror selfie, the expecting mother didn’t need more than a bright blue glow behind her for an accent. Miroslava Duma’s strapless chambray tent version is painstakingly simple, but against a brand-new tan acquired on vacation in Ponza, Italy, and a twisted head wrap, it makes for a perfectly realized look. The same could be said for actress and writer Tavi Gevinson, reclining poolside across a chaise lounge in her Lisa Marie Fernandez checkerboard seersucker two-piece, a look amped up with Miu Miu platform heels.

But for those looking for a little more coverage on hot summer days, the answer was inexplicable yet definitive. Tyler the Creator’s rabbit fur (with the letters GOLF in tie-dye) was the perfect anecdote to Los Angeles’s sunny weather. Meanwhile in sunny Prague, a certain fashion-forward singer boarded a train with a Balenciaga fur stole wrapped around her shoulders. After all, when you’reRihanna, why bother waiting around till fall to make a splash?