Rihanna Ditches Supersized Silhouettes for a Skintight LBD

If there’s a typical thread that ties Rihanna’s current outfits collectively, it’s swathes upon swathes of cloth. She turned up on the Guggenheim museum for Alaïa’s spring-summer 2025 present in cascades of crystal mesh, then debuted her Fenty Hair assortment at Selfridges enveloped in a customized iteration of Jacquemus’s opening autumn-winter 2024 look. She strutted into Giorgio Baldi on the West Coast in an outsized Away NY tracksuit, then took a late-night stroll by means of Manhattan in a Bottega Veneta coat of Brobdingnagian proportions, clutching her Sardine bag because it if had been an emotional help animal.

Her look on Thursday, then, was considerably of a curve-hugging curveball. Earlier than LaQuan Smith debuted his spring-summer 2025 assortment in Bushwick over New York Vogue Week, he described “the final word LaQuan Smith girl” to Vogue as being all about “glamour and sensuality and issues which might be fairly provocative and trendy,” and whereas he stopped in need of mentioning Rihanna by identify, RiRi, it appears, knew he had her in his thoughts’s eye—plucking Look 35 from the runway for A$AP Rocky’s thirty sixth birthday celebration in New York Metropolis on October 3.

Rihanna steps out in customized LaQuan Smith in New York Metropolis.

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Since being named an envoy for Bottega Veneta, A$AP Rocky has been carrying Matthieu Blazy’s designs at each flip.

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