See Rihanna's New Met Gala-Themed Wax Figure
Rihanna is the lone miss successful the satellite that tin propulsion disconnected a look similar this.
The 35-year-old—who is expecting her 2nd child with fellow A$AP Rocky—attended the 2023 Met Gala connected May 1 successful head-turning fashion, and arsenic expected we've got emotion connected the encephalon erstwhile it comes to her ensemble.
Though she was archetypal spotted wearing a brownish fur overgarment arsenic she stepped retired of NYC's The Carlyle Hotel, the large vocalist arrived to the Metropolitan Museum of Art successful a achromatic formal by Fendi covered successful Chanel's iconic Camellia angiosperm and featuring an epic train. To implicit the look, she accessorized with achromatic sunglasses and a heavy reddish lip.
Meanwhile, for the "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" themed event, her rocker love chose a floor-length, plaid kilt with bedazzled jeans underneath. He paired the bottommost with a classical achromatic suit jacket. (Catch each must-see reddish carpet look here.)
The Grammy winner's gorgeous quality astatine this year's gala comes aft she was absent from 2022 event. In 2021, she and A$AP, 34, unopen down the reddish carpet unneurotic arsenic a couple. Fast-forward 8 months later, and the fashionable mates announced determination would beryllium a caller addition to their family, a babe boy.
And though Rihanna didn't be the 2022 Met Gala due to her her archetypal pregnancy, Vogue made definite to grant the Barbados autochthonal in quite unsocial fashion: By creating a integer rendering of a marble statue replicating her screen published that April. (In lawsuit you missed it: For her stunning screen photo, the Fenty Beauty founder showed disconnected her babe bump successful a red lace Alaïa bodysuit.)
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"The statue of ‘Eirene (The Personification of Peace)' is usually the highest-profile marble goddess @themetmuseum Greco-Roman galleries," the outlet wrote alongside a May 3 Instagram video showing disconnected their artwork. "But present we've got @badgalriri, consecutive disconnected this month's Vogue cover."
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And it's worthy noting that for Rihanna, this year's quality astatine the gala is dissimilar immoderate other, considering she's styling for two. And the look's flawless execution is nary surprise, considering however she slayed her archetypal pregnancy. As the vocalist herself recalled amid her archetypal journey, she made it her ngo to find benignant successful a precise hopeful place.
"When I recovered retired I was pregnant, I thought to myself, ‘There's nary mode I'm going to spell buying successful nary maternity aisle,'' she told Vogue successful April 2022. "I'm sorry—it's excessively overmuch amusive to get dressed up. I'm not going to fto that portion vanish due to the fact that my assemblage is changing."
As she noted, "I'm hoping that we were capable to redefine what's considered ‘decent' for large women. My assemblage is doing unthinkable things close now, and I'm not going to beryllium ashamed of that. This clip should consciousness celebratory."
But Rihanna isn't the lone 1 shining agleam similar a diamond. Keep speechmaking for each look from the 2023 Met Gala.
Watch Live From E!: Met Gala 2023 today, May 1, starting astatine 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.