On Sunday night time, probably the most watched style present of New York Trend Week passed off — in Arizona.
I’m talking, in fact, of Rihanna’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present, a 13-minute extravaganza of crimson and a being pregnant reveal within the type of workwear, puffers and a breastplate that can most likely set maternity tendencies for the following decade.
If, throughout her first being pregnant, Rihanna’s type was largely outlined by what she didn’t put on (something that obscured her bump), in State Farm Stadium she was virtually fully lined up. Rihanna has usually used style as a instrument to underscore simply who has management over her physique, to pressure confrontation with corporeality. This as soon as once more redefined the phrases.
In head-to-toe pink she shone shiny. If not like a diamond, positively like a ruby: particularly the 19.47-carat Bayco ring she had on one hand. Or like some kind of avant-garde fertility goddess, drenched in a shade with all kinds of potent associations associated to the feminine physique — particularly the pregnant feminine physique. (Additionally, sure, Valentine’s Day, however she usually thinks extra globally than a Hallmark second.) It painted an image that might be learn from the farthest reaches of the soccer area.
(It helped that each one of her backup dancers shaped a sea of white hoodies.)
Even earlier than the child information broke, what Rihanna would put on for her first main second on an enormous public stage since 2018 was so hotly anticipated that on the morning of the present not one however two totally different manufacturers advised me confidentially that she was sporting appears to be like they’d custom-made for the occasion — although in the long run she pulled a last-minute shock.
That’s energy for ya. If there have been two, there have been most likely extra. (Who is aware of what number of?) Even Oscar nominees don’t have fairly so many manufacturers keen to gamble on the possibility {that a} movie star’s favor will fall on them. The calculation is that the potential payoff is well worth the danger.
Will probably be for Loewe, whose designer, Jonathan Anderson, created the surrealist leather-based breastplate Rihanna wore over her bodysuit and below that boiler swimsuit (meant to represent flight, in keeping with the model), accessorized with diamond brooches and left open on the torso to free the stomach.
Additionally Alaïa, whose artistic director, Pieter Mulier, custom-made the 2 leather-based coats she tossed on high: the padded pink leather-based bolero, with built-in gloves, that curved to drip off the again of her torso as she sang, and the voluminous padded pink leather-based robelike quantity, once more with built-in gloves, that puddled at her ft as she rose as much as the heavens on the finish. (Alaïa had an excellent Tremendous Bowl; Rihanna additionally wore a crocodile print skirt and a shearling leather-based jacket from the model for her pregame information convention.)
As for her footwear, they have been a sneaker collab from MM6 Maison Margiela x Salomon. Why put on just one model when you’ll be able to mix so many to your personal ends?
Collectively they provided a fast discourse on high-end cool, however finally the purpose of the look wasn’t a lot what Rihanna was sporting as how what she was sporting confirmed off the curve of her as soon as once more rising abdomen. The way it was framed.
It gave new that means to the time period “scarlet lady.”
