Rihanna Revives 2025's Rugby Shirt Trend in a Vaquera Top and Balenciaga Knife Pants

White Amina Muaddi pointed-toe pumps and multiple jackets completed the Fenty founder's outfit.

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Rihanna revives 2025's rugby shirt trend, paired with layered jackets, white pointed-toe pumps, and Balenciaga pants
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After wearing a nostalgic slip dress to support the release of A$AP Rocky's fourth album, Rihanna decided to revive another popular style trend. On Friday, January 16, the Fenty founder was photographed in New York City pairing 2025's rugby shirt trend with last year's white heels trend.

Rihanna—who was styled by Jahleel Weaver—wore a Vaquera rugby sweatshirt with an oversize gray peacoat from the label. She layered her top with a pinstripe navy blazer, and wore a pair of black knife pants from Balenciaga.

For footwear, the singer opted for a pair of crisp white Amina Muaddi pointed-toe pumps featuring an ankle strap. The designer's Anok 105 Patent Leather Pumps in White usually retail for $1,035.

Rihanna revives 2025's rugby shirt trend, paired with layered jackets, white pointed-toe pumps, and Balenciaga pants

Rihanna revives 2025's rugby shirt trend.

(Image credit: Getty Images/XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

Rihanna carried a ruched black leather clutch bag. A Briony Raymond diamond necklace and a pair of oversize black sunglasses completed the sleek outfit.

Rihanna revives 2025's rugby shirt trend, paired with layered jackets, white pointed-toe pumps, and Balenciaga pants

Rihanna paired layered jackets with white pointed-toe pumps.

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Fans of the multi-hyphenate are sure to want to replicate her recent style, which seeks to resurrect trends from both 2016 and 2025. Basically, Rihanna is making throwback fashion items look brand new again in the best possible way.

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Amy Mackelden
Amy Mackelden
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Amy Mackelden is the weekend editor at Marie Claire, where she covers celebrity and royal family news. She was the weekend editor at Harper’s BAZAAR for three years, where she covered breaking celebrity and entertainment news, royal stories, fashion, beauty, and politics. Prior to that, she spent a year as the joint weekend editor for Marie Claire, ELLE, and Harper's BAZAAR, and two years as an entertainment writer at Bustle. Her additional bylines include Cosmopolitan, People, The Independent, HelloGiggles, Biography, Shondaland, Best Products, New Statesman, Heat, and The Guardian. Her work has been syndicated by publications including Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Delish, Oprah Daily, Country Living, and Women's Health. Her celebrity interviews include Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Chastain, the cast of Selling Sunset, Emma Thompson, Jessica Alba, and Penn Badgley. In 2015, she delivered an academic paper at Kimposium, the world's first Kardashian conference.