Rihanna, pregnant at the Super Bowl: deciphering her red look

New York Fashion Week is currently in full swing, yet the biggest American fashion moment of the week took place in Arizona. Because that’s where Rihanna hosted theSuper Bowl super bowl halftime, Sunday evening, February 12, 2023 at State Farm Stadium.

Rihanna’s total red look at the Super Bowl to announce she’s pregnant

Highly anticipated (she hadn’t performed on stage since 2018), this great return to the stage of the Queen of Barbados caused a big surprise. Rihanna has in fact taken advantage of it the event followed by almost 100 million viewers to signal that she is expecting her second child, through a well-studied total red look, embracing her newborn bump. It was her longtime stylist, Jahleel Weaver assisted by @amirdayi who came up with this look that shines as bright as a diamond ruby.

The centerpiece of her outfit was a leather cuirass molded to the shape of her chest, by Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe. Since her performance was accompanied by several paintings in the air, she wore an equally vermilion aviator-style suit from the same house over it. On the side of shoes, one could almost speak of vintage since they were Maison Margiela x Salomon sneakers (yes, yes, the brand of products for mountain sports, gorpcore trend obliges) from 2006.

For some tableaux of his 13-minute medley performance, badgalriri wore two different scarlet leather padded coats, signed Maison Alaïa by Pieter Mulier. One, in a cropped bolero version, the other disproportionate to form a train, in homage to the famous cape that André Léon Talley (legend of the fashion world and friend of Rihanna who passed away in January 2022) often wore.

Rihanna then served up a minimalist styled and staged performance from the most publicized stage in the world to announce that she was pregnant with her second child. And we can already imagine that she intends to continue breaking the traditional codes associated with maternity looks.

Rihanna’s jewels at the Super Bowl

But what would it be Rihanna without some vintage jewelry: in this case, 3 vintage brooches with diamondstaken from Joseph Saidian and Sons Jewelry and pinned to his suit pocket.

On the ears, Rihanna wore several Messika jewelry. And sharper eyes might have noticed his Bayco ringadorned with a rare unheated 19.47 carat Burmese ruby ​​natural sugarloaf cabochon and 5.66 carats of trillion-cut and brilliant-cut colorless diamonds set in platinum and 18k yellow gold.

Rihanna’s Super Bowl makeover

Beauty-wise, Rihanna has obviously worn a lot of Fenty Beauty products (including one she even unsheathed during her performance, product placement-style, big businesswoman that she is), imagined by her makeup artist Priscilla Ono.

For the complexion : FLASHNAP Priming Eye Gel-Cream; PROFILTR Soft Matte Foundation in shade 320; PROFILTR Corrector in 300; PROFILTR fixing powder in banana; BROWMVP in Medium Brown and Dark Brown shades; MATCHSTIX Contour Skinstick in Mocha; INVISIMATTE Fixing + Absorbent powder; SUNSTALKR Bronzer in Bajan Gya. For the eyes, was the BOMBPOSSE Palette and FLYLINER in Cuz I’m Black. AND for the lipsit was ICONVELVET lipstick in The MVP shade.

For hair, it is her faithful hairdresser Yusef who styled her with a tight ponytail from which two symmetrical strands protrude at the front.

Red, Rihanna’s stylistic signature to consolidate her image

When in doubt, red is clearly one of Rihanna’s signature colors.on her lips, on her hair, in total look, or for the cover of her 2010 album, Strong. According to historian Michel Pastoureau, in his book Red, history of a colour, this nuance connotes many positive things in the West. It represents the richest nuance from a material, social, artistic, dreamlike and symbolic point of view. It is the first color that man has mastered, both in painting and in dyeing. Since ancient times, the Greeks and Romans have made it a synonym of power, wealth and majesty. Today it is still associated with power. AND Rihanna looks set to make it the fertility color of her career.