No person is aware of how you can work (work, work, work, work, work) the Met Gala purple carpet like Rihanna.
Lately, the Unhealthy Gal’s persistently topped each best-dressed checklist on the primary Monday in Might, displaying up in spectacular kinds starting from 2015’s golden Guo Pei cape to 2018’s pope-inspired couture.
However Rihanna didn’t at all times reign over style’s largest evening. Actually, the appears to be like she selected for her first few Met Galas within the late 2000s (together with a white halter robe and a puff-sleeved black pantsuit) have been downright demure.
It could have taken a while for the Grammy winner to grasp the artwork of dressing for the Met, however as of late, Rihanna may as properly be the one lady on this planet on the purple carpet.
Under, a glance again at each outfit the fashion famous person’s worn to the Met Gala.
2007
Rihanna snagged her first-ever invite to Vogue’s star-studded fundraiser just some months after the discharge of “Umbrella,” the tune that skyrocketed her musical profession.
For her Met debut, the Barbadian magnificence wore a bedazzled white Georges Chakra halter robe paired with black fishnet gloves and a razor-sharp asymmetrical bob, hinting at her “Good Woman Gone Unhealthy” period to come back.
2009
The “Impolite Boy” singer suited up for the “Mannequin as Muse: Embodying Trend”-themed fête wanting contemporary off the runway in Dolce & Gabbana.
Black leather-based biker gloves, an electrical blue cat eye and a blond-streaked pixie lower added edge to the menswear-inspired second.
2011
Simply name her Rihpunzel. The songstress sported a hanging waist-length scarlet braid to the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Magnificence” gala, together with a single-sleeved black lace robe by Stella McCartney lined in light-catching beads.
Christian Louboutin sandals and emerald Wilfredo Rosado earrings completed off the star’s romantic look.
2012
Croc ‘n’ roll! Rihanna shimmed right into a skintight, reptile-embossed leather-based Tom Ford costume the next yr, baring her claws with a set of jet-black acrylics.
She styled her half-shaved hair in a trio of tall buns advert wore minimal make-up, permitting her curve-hugging robe to take heart stage.
2014
Depart it to Rih to make a crop high work on the yr’s fanciest and most formal purple carpet.
The “We Discovered Love” hitmaker was white-hot on this tattoo-baring two-piece Stella McCartney ensemble, which she spiced up with loads of bling — together with a surprising diamond choker from Jacob & Co.
2015
Unquestionably the look that cemented Rihanna’s standing because the Met Gala’s reigning “Trend Killa,” the musician’s yellow fur-trimmed Guo Pei robe was a flawless selection for the “China: Via The Wanting Glass”-themed gala.
Weighing in at a whopping 55 kilos, requiring round two years to make and topped off with a regal gilded headpiece, the canary-colored couture birthed numerous memes; Rihanna later admitted she apprehensive about it being “an excessive amount of” for the event.
“I bear in mind being so scared to get out of that automotive … I used to be driving previous the purple carpet, and I used to be simply seeing, like, robes, and I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, I’m a clown. Persons are going to chortle at me,” she informed “Entry Hollywood” in 2020.
“I circled like, thrice, I’m not even joking. And eventually, I used to be like, ‘No matter, let’s go. Let’s simply go. Let’s simply go.’ I do know. I don’t remorse it.’”
Nor ought to she.
2017
The Unhealthy Gal regarded blooming stunning on the “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Artwork Of The In-Between” gala, embracing the night’s “avant-garde” costume code in a pink multi-petaled look from (the place else?) Comme des Garçons.
Rihanna went bolder along with her magnificence look than typical — choosing dramatic rosy blush and eye make-up together with a burgundy lip — and topped issues off with a modern high knot.
As for these thigh-high strappy sandals? “The footwear took me an hour to get into,” she informed Vogue’s André Leon Talley on the purple carpet.
2018
Rihanna served as a gala co-chair the next yr — and served fairly the look on the carpet.
As a nod to the evening’s “Heavenly Our bodies: Trend and the Catholic Creativeness” theme, she confirmed up in a papal-inspired minidress, gown and mitre by Maison Margiela Artisanal’s John Galliano, all utterly encrusted with pearls and crystals.
“It was heavy, each step was a squat,” she confessed to “Leisure Tonight” just a few days after the ball. “I promise you my butt gained from that evening.”
2021
Rihanna arrived fashionably late on the “In America: A Lexicon of Trend” gala alongside boyfriend A$AP Rocky, marking the couple’s purple carpet debut.
Of her outsized black Balenciaga coat costume and beanie, she informed Essence, “I needed a glance that appeared very highly effective but female, but a black hoodie which is the factor that we’re normally incriminated by as black individuals. I needed to empower that. I needed to take that and make it mine and make it style.”
A sprinkling of jewels from Bulgari, Thelma West and Maria Tash ensured her outfit shone shiny like a … properly, you realize.
2023
Rihanna was tardy to the get together as soon as once more two years later, hitting the Karl Lagerfeld-themed carpet at round 10 p.m. in a bridal-worthy white Valentino Haute Couture robe that hugged her child bump.
In an homage to the late designer, her look was topped with an identical cape lined in 30 outsized camellias — a Chanel home emblem since 1913, because it was founder Gabrielle Chanel’s favourite flower. Her white fingerless gloves and piles of Bulgari pearls have been equally Karl-coded.
2025
Arriving simply earlier than the carpet closed — as has develop into her signature transfer in recent times — Rihanna arrived on the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Type”-themed ball in a glance that was tailor-made for 2.
Hours after debuting her child bump in a second-skin Miu Miu look whereas en path to the Met, the soon-to-be mother of three hit the step-and-repeat in a menswear-inspired Marc Jacobs outfit accented with a pinstriped bustle and broad-brimmed hat.
Rih’s suited-up fashion completely complemented companion (and 2025 gala co-chair) A$AP Rocky’s all-black AWGE ensemble for the occasion — and as soon as once more proved why the Fenty Magnificence founder is the queen of maternity style.
