The Barbadian singer started her 13-minute halftime present on a suspended platform singing “B**** Higher Have My Cash” in a cotton canvas flight swimsuit. The garment was nearly solely unzipped to disclose an identical silk jersey catsuit and sculpted leather-based corset (and, in fact, a child bump, as later confirmed to CNN by her consultant.)
Rihanna ended the efficiency in a pink leather-based maxi puffer coat by Alaïa. Credit score: Jeff Lewis/AP
Rihanna accomplished the outfit with a pair of pink sneakers from Maison Margiela’s collaboration with sport shoe model, Salomon. Excessive, she wore a leather-based puffer scarf with built-in gloves by Alaïa, the label based by late Tunisian couturier Azzedine Alaïa.
The 34-year-old quickly discarded the headscarf, earlier than embarking on a medley of hits together with “Impolite Boy” and “Umbrella.” However she was again in one other Alaïa piece for the finale, “Diamonds.” This time it was a pink leather-based maxi puffer coat — additionally with built-in gloves — designed by the label’s inventive director Pieter Mulier. (On the halftime present press convention Thursday, Rihanna had additionally opted for an aviator jacket by Alaïa, which simply days in the past opened a New York boutique after greater than 30 years with out brick-and-mortar presence within the metropolis.)
Rihanna performs onstage in the course of the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LVII Halftime Present at State Farm Stadium. Credit score: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Pictures North America/Getty Pictures
This was Rihanna’s first stay public efficiency in six years. And with the star spending a lot of the period in-between constructing her lingerie and wonder empire, fashion-watchers had speculated that she would possibly put on objects from her Savage X Fenty line. This, nonetheless, was left to her legion of back-up dancers, whose white hooded jackets opened to disclose numerous objects from the underwear model.
Rihanna carried out a medley of hits together with “We Discovered Love” and “Run This City.” Credit score: Gregory Shamus/Getty Pictures
In a press assertion issued by Loewe, whose dad or mum firm LVMH additionally owns a majority stake in Rihanna’s Fenty Magnificence model, Anderson described the present as an “unforgettable second.”
“Rihanna is a real icon, and dealing together with her to deliver these stage appears to be like to life appears like a wild, fantastic dream,” he’s quoted as saying.
