Jaws up from the floor please, Rihanna might see! The superstar businesswoman’s Miami party look surely landed with the splash she intended when she marched into Story nightclub leaving a diamanté trail behind her last night. Wearing what can best be described as discoball coords, Rih delivered a masterclass in the louche way to do December dressing. Forget skin-tight silhouettes, micro hemlines and sheer fabrications, the performer made her signature baggy fits work for club hopping by blinging them out to the max.
All those crystals require a deftness of touch when it comes to styling. Rihanna stuck to the silver theme for her accessories, but kept her glam to a minimum. Loose, undone waves (Pre-Raphaelite curls are quickly becoming a breakout 2022 beauty trend) and Gloss-Bombed lips were all she needed to make an impact and…shine bright like a diamond.
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That’s not to say Rih can’t be tempted by a minidress. This is the woman who spent her maternity leave in super-short Saint Laurent skirts and Jacquie Aiche body jewelry—she loves a Magda Butrym or The Attico party piece as much as the next It-girl. But she also likes to keep us guessing. Already this festive season, we’ve seen her do drinks in West Hollywood in a Balenciaga X Adidas padded bathrobe and pantaboots, and set pulses racing on Instagram in Savage X Fenty’s latest corsetry. Don’t expect a repeat of yesterday’s gemstoned look.
While The Navy will be taking clues for what to expect from the singer’s career-defining Super Bowl performance in February, we should anticipate a handful of fashion flirtations before then. Since announcing the show and releasing new music, we’ve witnessed a vintage soccer shirt phase, a red-carpet comeback in directional Rick Owens and several archive throwbacks courtesy of her increasingly rare archive. Come 2023, we could see a new reinvention of Rihanna entirely.
This article first appeared on British Vogue.
