Rihanna Skips 2024 Met Gala Due to Flu: Report

June 2024 · 2 minute read

No one does the Met Gala like Rihanna — but this yr, a last-minute illness stored her from taking a bow. 

Although the singer, 36, initially planned to grace Us with her presence at fashion’s biggest evening on Monday, May 6, a resources told People and Entertainment Tonight that she was once in the long run forced to cancel last minute after coming down with the flu. 

Rihanna in the past teased her search for the event, which takes position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, telling Vogue final month that she planned to incorporate her many businesses into her outfit. “I’m gonna wear Fenty something! Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Savage,” she shared. 

Rihanna asserted, then again, that the glance could be more modest than her seems from the past. 

“I’ve executed so much s—t in my lifestyles. I’ve had my nipples out, my panties out. But now, those are the things which, I assume as a mother and an developed younger woman — emphasis on younger lady — these are things I feel like I'd by no means do [now],” she instructed Vogue.

At last 12 months’s ball, Rihanna made a grand entrance in Valentino

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The Grammy winner commemorated the theme “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” — which celebrated the overdue clothier — in a rose-covered white robe. After reaching the highest of the enduring Met staircase, then-pregnant Rihanna showed off her baby bump by means of removing the outer layer of her ensemble, revealing a sleeveless get dressed that hugged her curves. She accentuated the look with a diamond remark necklace, oversized lashes that came within the shape of sun shades and a bold red lip. (Rihanna and boyfriend ASAP Rocky welcomed their 2nd son, Riot Rose, in August 2023. Baby No. 1, son RZA, used to be born in May 2022.) 

In the same Vogue interview, Rihanna reflected on her favourite Met Gala appears, praising the yellow gold Guo Pei masterpiece she wore at the 2015 soirée as her best possible. 

“Nobody will ever overlook that and I will never fail to remember the feeling of discovering that designer based off of the design challenge that Anna [Wintour] gave me,” Rihanna instructed the newsletter. 

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