Here's a photo of Rihanna at the 2008 BET awards last week. She's sporting a very short hair do. We think her prior short haircut suited her better. Check out a photo here. Still, both short hair cuts suit her better than her prior long and curly style?

See also how to get Rihanna's makeup look.

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What does the world's oldest art say about us? The oldest art are the cave paintings found in France and Spain. These are humanity's "first impressions".

Judith Thurman writes a fascinating article about the possible meanings behind these cave paintings. At one point she is describing how Homo sapiens coexisted with the Neanderthals for about eight thousand years. The low-browed Neanderthals were awed by the art they saw in the caves and tried to copy it. And here she gives us a sharply original definition of fashion;

"The pathos of their workmanship-the attempt to copy something novel and marvelous by the dimming light of their existence--nearly makes you weep. And here, perhaps, the cruel notion that we call fashion, a coded expression of rivalry and desire, was born."