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Met Gala Rewind: Look Back at Rihanna's Best Looks!
Rihanna’s Met Gala fashion is just too good.
Indeed, after skipping out on 2024 event due to the flu, the “Umbrella singer” is returning to the Met for the annual fashion gala, which is themed “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” And the question isn’t whether she’ll bring the house down with her look but rather how—given she is among the best dressed attendees of all time.
For this year’s festivities, she’ll join longtime partner A$AP Rocky—who she first walked the Met Gala red carpet with in 2021—who is co-chairing the event along with Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton and Pharrell Williams.
Having previously co-hosted the event herself, Rihanna, 37, is no stranger to the event chaired by Anna Wintour. The first Met Gala she attended was in 2007, making her debut in a white Georges Chakra gown paired with a white rose for the theme “Poiret: King of Fashion.”
The “Love on the Brain” singer has continued to partner with fashion powerhouses including Dolce & Gabbana, Tom Ford, Valentino and more to create her iconic looks. Her personal favorite looks, according to an April 2024 Instagram video with British Vogue, are from 2014 and 2015.
For the former, which boasted the theme was “Charles James: Beyond Fashion,” and Rihanna donned a white two-piece designed by Stella McCartney. The collar was embellished with silver pieces, and she wore her hair is a messy up-do.
The following year, the theme was “China: Through the Looking Glass,” and the “Work” singer partnered with Chinese designer Guo Pei. She wore a yellow coat dress, the train cascading down the steps behind her, with a golden headpiece styled in her red bob.
For her 2018 look, leaning heavily into the theme “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” Rihanna dressed as the Pope, stunning in silver beaded mini-dress, coat and mitre. The papal look garnered a lot of attention for her co-hosting duties that year.
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Now, the Fenty Beauty founder—who shares kids RZA Athelston Mayers, 3, and Riot Rose Mayers, 23 months with A$AP Rocky—is ready to sit back a bit, sharing how motherhood has influenced her work.
Despite not attending the event in 2024, she did share that her planned look was going to be, “chill.”
“I know you think I’m lying,” she told E! News April 2024. “It’s chill.”
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To her, being a mom and working means being intentional with her time. “Everything has to be intentional,” she shared. “Everything has to be worth it—especially when it takes me away from them.”
One thing is for certain, Rihanna continues to wow fans with her innovative looks year after year. For a look back at all of her Met Gala looks, keep reading.
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2007
Making her Met Gala debut, Rihanna stunned in a white Georges Chakra gown, carrying a red rose with her up the steps for the theme “Poiret: King of Fashion.”
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2009
For 2009’s theme “The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion,” Rihanna donned a Dolce & Gabbana suit paired with black stilettos.
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2011
She donned a black lace Stella McCartney dress along with a long braid cascading down her shoulder for the theme “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.”
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2012
Rihanna appeared on the red carpet in a textured black dress by Tom Ford for 2012’s theme “Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations.”
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2014
For the 2014 theme “Charles James: Beyond Fashion,” she wore a white silk two-piece by Stella McCartney. She shared with British Vogue in an April 2024 Instagram video that this is one of her favorite Met looks to date, tied with her 2015 gown.
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2015
Leaning into the theme, “China: Through the Looking Glass” Rihanna donned one of her favorite gowns, a yellow coat dress designed by Chinese designer Guo Pei, paired with a golden headpiece. She told Vogue at the time, “I will never forget that feeling of discovering that designer.”
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2017
Following the “Garden of Time” dress code, the “Love on the Brain” singer donned a Comme de Garçons gown from their runway. The floral look made of rosette came from the honorary house that year for the theme “Rei Kawakubo/Comme de Garçons: Art of the In-Between.”
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2018
Serving as a co-host for the Met Gala, Rihanna stunned in a mini-dress and cape covered in rhinestones, paired with a fully beaded mitre, tapping into the theme “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” by dressing as the Pope. Her papal look was designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela.
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2021
Walking her first Met Gala with partner A$AP Rocky, she wore a black, puffy gown designed by Balenciaga with a black beanie and silver jewelry for “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.”
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2023
For the theme “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” Rihanna stunned the steps in an all-white Valentino gown while pregnant with her second child Riot Rose Mayers, who she gave birth to a few months later in August 2023. She showed off her baby bump in the gown, draping a flower coat of white roses around her.
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