Rihanna Skips 2024 Met Gala Due to Flu: Report

Nobody does the Met Gala like Rihanna — however this 12 months, a last-minute sickness stored her from taking a bow. 

Though the singer, 36, initially deliberate to grace Us together with her presence at vogue’s largest evening on Monday, Could 6, a sources informed Folks and Leisure Tonight that she was in the end pressured to cancel final minute after coming down with the flu. 

Rihanna beforehand teased her search for the occasion, which takes place on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York Metropolis, telling Vogue final month that she deliberate to include her many companies into her outfit. “I’m gonna put on Fenty one thing! Fenty Magnificence, Fenty Pores and skin, Fenty Savage,” she shared. 

Rihanna asserted, nonetheless, that the look can be extra modest than her appears from the previous. 

“I’ve finished a lot s—t in my life. I’ve had my nipples out, my panties out. However now, these are the issues which, I suppose as a mother and an advanced younger woman — emphasis on younger woman — these are issues I really feel like I’d by no means do 1715111047,” she informed Vogue.

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Though the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute Gala fundraiser has been occurring since 1948, it wasn’t till Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour took over within the Nineties that the occasion turned the Tremendous Bowl of vogue. Click on by means of to see among the finest Met Gala attire of all time from the purple carpet!

Finally 12 months’s ball, Rihanna made a grand entrance in Valentino. 

The Grammy winner honored the theme “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence” — which celebrated the late designer — in a rose-covered white robe. After reaching the highest of the enduring Met staircase, then-pregnant Rihanna confirmed off her child bump by eradicating the outer layer of her ensemble, revealing a sleeveless gown that hugged her curves. She accentuated the look with a diamond assertion necklace, outsized lashes that got here within the type of sun shades and a daring purple lip. (Rihanna and boyfriend ASAP Rocky welcomed their second son, Riot Rose, in August 2023. Child No. 1, son RZA, was born in Could 2022.) 

In the identical Vogue interview, Rihanna mirrored on her favourite Met Gala appears, praising the yellow gold Guo Pei masterpiece she wore on the 2015 soirée as her finest. 

“No one will ever neglect that and I’ll always remember the sensation of discovering that designer based mostly off of the design problem that Anna [Wintour] gave me,” Rihanna informed the publication.