Rihanna, A$AP Rocky Arrive Late Together

Date evening! Rihanna stepped out — and turned heads — with boyfriend A$AP Rocky on the 2021 Met Gala on Monday, September 13, after skipping the annual style occasion in 2019.

The 33-year-old “Desperado” songstress dazzled in an all-black Balenciaga Couture ensemble for the “In America: A Lexicon of Style” themed occasion. The highest of the robe seemed like an outsized coat, whereas the underside half cinched in for a mermaid-style skirt. Rihanna topped off her look with a black beanie, Bvlgaria jewels and diamond headpiece.

The 32-year-old rapper additionally donned an outsized coat — his included a colourful, patchwork design — when strolling the carpet late along with his love. Rocky later dropped his outerwear to disclose a black swimsuit with jeweled embellishment on the collar.

The night marked the couple’s first Met Gala collectively because the star-studded evening was canceled in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. One 12 months prior, the “Diamonds” singer was noticeably absent from the gala after cohosting the 2018 occasion alongside Anna Wintour, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace.

Rihanna updated her fans on her whereabouts in the course of the Met Gala in Could 2019 by sharing a photograph of her Fenty Magnificence lipsticks through her Instagram Story. After a fan jokingly known as her out on Twitter for “enjoying with that f–kin make-up” as an alternative of attending the New York Metropolis affair, the musician shared a screenshot of the tweet alongside a weary-looking emoji and one other shrugging emoji.

Though she wasn’t current to see any celebrities’ seems to be firsthand, the “Umbrella” singer shared her favourite outfit from the evening, dubbing Wintour, 71, because the “greatest dressed” for her bedazzled Chanel robe and pink feathered cape.

One 12 months prior, the Ocean’s Eight star was the belle of the ball in a silver, bedazzled Maison Margiela Artisanal ensemble and pope-inspired hat. Rihanna’s jaw-dropping look match completely with 2018’s “Heavenly Our bodies: Style and the Catholic Creativeness” theme.

The Barbados native attended her first Met Gala in 2007. She has since turned the occasion into her private runway by sporting statement-making outfits 12 months after 12 months.

A few of Rihanna’s biggest fashion hits embrace 2014’s horny Stella McCartney white skirt and crop prime combo for the “Charles James: Past Style” theme and 2015’s yellow Guo Pei cape and matching headpiece in honor of the “China By way of the Trying Glass” occasion.

Forward of her trendy evening out on Monday, Rihanna frolicked with fellow Caribbean queen Nicki Minaj and the rapper’s 11-month-old son on Labor Day. The fashion designer cozied up to her boyfriend whereas attending to know the 38-year-old “Starship” singer’s toddler.

The “Chun-Li” rapper, who shares her son with husband Kenneth Petty, shared photographs from the evening through Instagram. “#RokNRiha #QueenRih #CaribbeanGirlsRunit,” Minaj captioned the group snap on September 6. “Love her downnnnnnn #NewYorkShit #YKTFV.”

The hangout got here almost two years after Rihanna was first romantically linked to Rocky in December 2019. The pair’s relationship has since become pretty serious, with a supply solely telling Us Weekly in August that they’re “head over heels in love” with one another.

“It’s true there’s quite a lot of buzz of their circle about an engagement being within the works. Going by the hints Rocky’s been dropping, [it] might effectively occur quickly,” the insider added. “However there’s no strain and what issues most to each of them is to maintain constructing on this really stunning factor they’ve received going.”

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