Every year, Rihanna graces the Crop Over Festival, aka Carnival, in her native Barbados, with her presence. Every year, we are blessed.

Can you hear that high-pitched squealing in the distance, seeping into your earholes at the quiet, desperate decibel of a rubber balloon slowly bloodletting molecules of helium? That is your psychic vision of the thirst that will accompany invites to the Givenchy runway show when it relocates from Paris to New York…

In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow theorized that all human needs aren’t created equal; in fact, their interdependence can be best visualized by categorizing and arranging them on a triangle-shaped chart. At the bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs are basic survival staples—food, water, shelter—and at the top, the…