Not only was there a marked absence of our other Met Gala mothers (no Rihanna, no Bella Hadid, no Beyoncé, no Blake Lively), Zendaya did enough to hold her own even in they had arrived.

There had been big gowns at the Met Gala before this. But Rihanna knew exactly how dramatic this Guo Pei gown was (even though it was perfectly thematic to "China: Through the Looking Glass").

Kevin Mazur/Getty Less is more for Rihanna's 2024 Met Gala look. While chatting with Extra as she celebrated the launch of her new Fenty Beauty Soft’lit Foundation at an event in Los Angeles ...

One has more than 300 million followers on Instagram, the other over 280 million... and their popularity goes well beyond social media. Beyonce and Rihanna dominated fashion trends in 2023.