Rihanna's Official 2025 Met Gala Red Carpet Look Is Worth the Wait

She's the epitome the night's theme in custom Marc Jacobs.

Rihanna attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.
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This year's Met Gala theme is "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style"—or, in other words, a celebration of Rihanna's personal aesthetic. And, rest assured, she delivered.

Naturally, the pop star was in her truest form on Monday night, arriving late (as scheduled) to the evening's red carpet. She changed out of her earlier crop-top look into a tailored suit gown by Marc Jacobs, complete with a polka dot ascot that embodied the night's "Black dandy" codes.

Rihanna attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.

Rihanna attends the 2025 Met Gala, celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style."

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Rihanna attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.

She wore a suit dress and a matching hat, with a polka dot neck scarf.

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Earlier in the evening, Rihanna hosted a pregnancy reveal, when she was photographed outside of the Carlyle Hotel in her laid-back travel outfit. Before changing into her evening look, Riri was dressed casually, by Met Gala fashion standards, in a gray, ribbed two-piece skirt set, with matching knee-high socks.

The crop top showing off her belly perfectly. In 2023, the pop star revealed her second pregnancy during her Super Bowl Half-Time performance, so this debut feels like a good way to top it.

The mogul embraced 1920s themes in her first look as well, styling her low-key look with a wool cloche hat and a mink sole, embellished with a glittering brooch. The pinstriped pumps from the night before acted as her 'fit's final addition.

Rihanna at The Carlyle Hotel before the 2025 Met Gala: "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style"

Rihanna exits the Carlyle Hotel before the 2025 Met Gala in a bump-baring co-ord.

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Rihanna is a bona fide Met Gala regular and this year marks her eleventh time walking the famed museum steps, since she first attended in 2008. Even so, the 2025 event might be one of her most highly-anticipated appearances to date, given that her partner A$AP Rocky is one of the evening's hosts.

The rapper lended Vogue his fashion expertise for the 2025 soirée—and, as tonight as proven, it was absolutely the right choice.

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Kelsey Stiegman
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Kelsey (she/her) is a freelance fashion editor and writer, specializing in e-commerce and fashion news. With more than ten years of experience in digital media, Kelsey has a knack for turning top-performing content into top-selling content. At Marie Claire, she provides witty celeb style commentary, unpacking the style choices of stars like Zoë KravitzDua LipaSelena Gomez, and her fashion superhero, Rihanna. When she’s not tracking the personal style of Hollywood’s elite, Kelsey also covers designer collabs and industry news.

Before taking her talents to Marie Claire, Kelsey was the Senior Fashion Editor at Bustle, where she oversaw the site’s fashion coverage and launched a successful luxury handbag series called Secure The Bag. Prior to Bustle, she came from a six-year stint at Seventeen, during which she managed the team’s fashion and beauty verticals and led e-commerce strategy. In her freelance era, Kelsey contributes to publications like InStyle, CosmopolitanGlamour, and more. She also offers consulting services and content creation, in addition to writing and editing. Follow @klstieg on Instagram for 'fit pics and travel recommendations.