Rihanna signs up bikini designer

NEW YORK: Rihanna is planning to take a lot of vacations in 2010 - she has hired a bikini stylist.

The Umbrella star is such a fan of Celeste Johnny's sexy swimwear she has asked the designer to create a one-off line of beach clothing for her.

And Johnny, the owner of Johnny Vincent Swimwear, is only too pleased to help her celebrity client after Rihanna sent orders sky rocketing by wearing one of her revealing bikinis during a recent holiday in Mexico with new boyfriend, baseball star Matt Kemp.

Johnny says, "She looked great... and I just got an email that she wants a striped bikini, so I'm kinda going over things with her assistant as far as, like, the colours that she wants."