Rihanna’s Best Met Gala Looks: Did Her Pregnancy Reveal Make the Cut?
Rihanna has consistently been one of the most anticipated attendees at the Met Gala each year. The singer has worn dramatic, jaw-dropping looks in past years. In 2025, she used the Met Gala as an opportunity to announce her pregnancy. Here’s a look back at her four best looks over the years.
Rihanna’s show-stopping dress for the Met Gala theme ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’
Rihanna’s best Met Gala look for China: Through the Looking Glass is arguably her best ever. She wore a yellow coat dress with a cascading train by Chinese designer Guo Pei.
“I’m so in love with this dress, but the train is insane!” she told Vanity Fair. “I can’t really walk in it without any help — but it’s so worth it. I love this dress so much! It’s Chinese couture and it’s made by Guo Pei. It’s handmade by one Chinese woman and it took her two years to make. I found it online.”
Photographs of Rihanna with her train covering the steps at the Met dominated the coverage of the event.
Her authentic outfit for ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination saw many celebrities bring iconic looks to the red carpet. Even among all these looks, Rihanna stood out. She wore a bejeweled papal mitre with a matching mini dress and robe.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York’s Roman Catholic diocese revealed that he lent Rihanna the mitre for the occasion.
“She gave it back to me this morning,” he told Sirius XM’s The Catholic Channel. “She was very gracious.”
Rihanna’s dedication to the Met Gala theme for ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between’
In 2017, Rihanna turned heads at the “Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between” Met Gala. She adhered to the avant-garde theme better than most with a dress by Kawakubo.
The dress featured scraps of fabric arranged to look like flower petals. She paired it with red heels with straps that went up her thighs.
Her pregnancy announcement at ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’
In 2025, Rihanna showed up at the Met Gala red carpet in custom Marc Jacobs for the theme Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. She was the final arrival of the night, wearing a gray bustier, black cropped jacket, polka dot cravat, and a black pinstripe skirt. She also took the opportunity to reveal her third pregnancy. The bustier’s impeccable tailoring revealed her baby bump.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I thought to myself: There’s no way I’m going to go shopping in no maternity aisle,” she told Vogue when she was pregnant with her first child. “I’m sorry — it’s too much fun to get dressed up. I’m not going to let that part disappear because my body is changing.”
Rihanna has opted for dramatic pregnancy reveals in the past. In 2023, she revealed she was pregnant with her second child at the Super Bowl. While this look is a little more divisive with fans, the dramatics of the pregnancy reveal places it among her best.
