It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Rihanna is the Met Gala Sovereign.
No one else comes close to her on the First Monday in May or the Second Monday in September. Not even Zendaya.
So Rihanna was the one we’ve all been waiting for. Especially since last year the Met Gala was cancelled and she didn’t show up the year before for the Camp theme.
We waited, and waited, and waited, and waited.
At 7pm Rihanna showed up at the hotel. Arrivals had already started at the Met and Rihanna hadn’t even started prepping yet.
On Twitter people began to panic. After two hours, they were despondent, thinking that it was done, that she wasn’t actually planning to attend.
That she’d host the after-party but that’s it. Three hours go by, she still was there. And then, finally, just after 10pm, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky emerged from the hotel to save the party.