In the met gala there is no watch that is worth. There time is a suggestion and the exact moment in which Rihanna sets a foot on the red carpet becomes, irremediably, the climax. This year, in One night of tributes to black tailoringthe artist appeared With his third pregnancy as a banner. Without warning and without giving interviews.
It appeared at the end, when it seemed that it would not come. Maybe he was at home, with his feet high and a handle of hand in his hands. But no: it arrived as you get when you know you are The Queen of the Board. A few minutes late, but with an entry that reset the entire night.
He appeared dressed in Marc Jacobs and, with what would be a male jacket in another, he became a shield and manifest. Corsé adjusted -almost insulting of the perfect -, skirt with diplomatic line that seemed sewn with the patience of a Savile Row tailor and the pulse of a Caribbean barbative. In the head, a hilly wing hat, flirting with irreverence and dandism. And there, among all that, the unequivocal curve of motherhood: The belly of his third pregnancy.
A $ AP Rockyhis, impeccable partner, walked a few steps behind as who accompanies a legend. There were rumors from hours before. Who had seen her at Carlyle with a suspiciously revealing Miu Miu. That their movements were different, more leisurely. That the smile was the same, but with a new nuance …
The theme of the gala, Superfine: Tailoring Black Stylehe sought to pay tribute to black elegance, to dandism as an act of resistance, to the suit as a weapon. Rihanna took that premise and led her to her land: she transformed the idea into body. Because Being black, woman, artist and pregnant In a world that insists on compartmentalizing everything, it is in itself a declaration of intentions.
And it is not the first time. In the 2023 Super Bowl already played this letter: pregnant, suspended in the air, dressed in red like a green traffic light. Now he does again, with a new sophistication, more subtle and less explosive, but equally shocking. Because if something has done Rihanna in recent years is to appropriate her narrative: being a mother while still being an icon, showing the skin without asking permission, living in her own way.
There are those who will say that these things should not be news. That a pregnant woman on the red carpet should not surprise. But they are wrong. Because what Rihanna does is more than parade with a pregnancy gut: it is reformulate fashion language from flesh and desire. It is to use The body, changing and fertile, as a style and power tool. At 37, mother of Rza and Riot Rose, with an empire of beauty and fashion behind him, Rihanna is beyond Trending topic.
