The 2023 Met Gala is an homage to Karl Lagerfeld, the, uh, controversial former creative director of Chanel, and Rihanna signaled her attendance by dressing like a sexy ostrich the weekend before the event. Her jacket and logo sunglasses are from Chanel’s Fall/Winter 1994 collection, designed by Lagerfeld himself. This seems to suggest she’ll be appearing on the red carpet, the place where she and Rocky made their debut in 2021. (She didn’t attend last year, as the Gala was within weeks of her giving birth.)

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Met Gala Flowerbomb

Met Gala Flowerbomb

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Photo: Noam Galai/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty (Getty Images)
Image for article titled Rihanna’s Pregnancy Looks Are a Gift to Us All
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Rihanna was the last person to arrive on the red carpet and she was a gigantic camellia, Coco Chanel’s signature flower. Importantly, her sunglasses had eyelashes. She shrugged off the flower cocoon to reveal a plunging white gown and a reported $25 million in Cartier jewels. (She disguised the underpinnings of this look with a big fur coat when leaving her hotel and presumably put on the petals and train in the van on the way there.) In total, there were no fewer than three bumps at the event as Serena Williams and Karlie Kloss used fashion’s biggest night to reveal their second pregnancies.

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Met Gala Afterparty

Met Gala Afterparty

Rihanna is seen heading out on May 1, 2023 in New York City.
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Rihanna kept her white hot theme going for the Met Gala afterparty with a cropped jacket and maxi skirt unbuttoned up to there.

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