Rihanna was pictured for the first time since skipping the Met Gala after reportedly coming down with the flu.
The Diamonds songstress, 36, was spotted embracing her partner A$AP Rocky, 35, as she departed a New York City building on Thursday before heading inside her awaiting car.
As usual, she looked the height of style.
Rihanna wowed in a sleek black dress, hoodie, and textured jacket with a quilted white purse thrown over her shoulder.
Her blonde tresses were styled to perfection and she was the epitome of cool with metallic-rim sunglasses.
Rihanna was pictured for the first time since skipping the Met Gala after reportedly coming down with the flu
Injecting even more glamour, she rocked a silver choker necklace.
While Rihanna was one of the most anticipated stars at Monday’s Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she did not make it to the proceedings.
The singer and style icon was ‘sick with the flu,’ an insider told People on Monday, and could not attend after teasing what her ensemble would be like to the fans.
The Saint Michael, Barbados native was seen Saturday evening in Miami with her boyfriend, rapper A$AP Rocky, 35, at his Puma pop-up shop.
The Umbrella vocalist, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, had sported pink hair at the event, prompting speculation it would complement her Met Gala ensemble.
Rihanna had traveled to the Big Apple following the Miami trip, an insider told Page Six on Monday, adding that a stylist of the vocalist ‘was seen at the Carlyle Hotel greeting the security team that carried her jewels’ for the gathering.
The Grammy-winning musical artist had been planning on attending this year’s festivities, as she spoke with Extra on April 27 about her fashion plans for the annual event.
‘I’m actually just keeping it real simple this year,’ Rihanna told the outlet as she was at a promotional event for her Fenty Beauty line in Los Angeles.
Rihanna wowed in a sleek black dress, hoodie, and textured jacket with a quilted white purse thrown over her shoulder
Rihanna, 36, ‘is sick with the flu,’ and could not attend Monday’s Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art amid the illness, a source told People. She was pictured Saturday evening in Miami with her A$AP Rocky, 35, at his Puma pop-up shop
The Umbrella artist has been a staple of the annual fashion event; this year’s theme is Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
She added: ‘Very simple… I think it’s gonna come to what my makeup and what my hair is going to do. We wanna play with that, but I have no idea what I’m gonna do with that.’
The Don’t Stop the Music singer said her ensemble would be ‘very simple-ish… compared to everything [she’s] ever done.’
She added, ‘I’m showing up for dinner! Shout out to Anna Wintour.’
Rihanna, along with Katy Perry, was depicted as having attended the gala in fake images that circulated Monday evening.
Rihanna wasn’t the only superstar missing from the red carpet on Monday, as Beyoncé and Taylor Swift also skipped the proceedings; neither have attended since 2016, according to The New York Times.
Among the big names who made their presence felt at the Met Gala included Zendaya and Jennifer Lopez.
Rihanna had been planning to attend, as she spoke with Extra about her outfit plans while at a promotional event for her Fenty Beauty line in April in LA at 7th Street Studios
Rihanna said she’d been planning on ‘actually just keeping it real simple this year’
Rihanna was pictured at her first-ever Met Gala in 2007, the year she released her chart-topping hit Umbrella
A notable outfit she donned was a daffodil yellow gown that weighed 55 pounds, for the gala’s 2015 theme of China: Through the Looking Glass
The S&M artist had a regal presence at the 2018 event, themed Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
The songstress was pictured at last year’s Met Gala in a flowing ensemble for the theme, The Garden of Time
Rihanna has garnered notoriety for her memorable outfits she’s worn to the event over the past 14 years.
She attended her first-ever Met Gala in 2007, the year she released her chart-topping hit, Umbrella.
The songstress attended last year’s Met Gala in a flowing ensemble for the theme, The Garden of Time.
The S&M artist had a regal presence at the 2018 event, themed Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, donning a mini-skirt ensemble.
Another notable outfit she donned was a daffodil yellow gown that weighed 55 pounds, for the gala’s 2015 theme of China: Through the Looking Glass.
