Pop icon Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty lingerie show was the week’s most anticipated but exclusive event and doubled as an invitation-only concert, featuring some of music’s buzziest acts such as Migos and Halsey.
In a spectacle that dominated New York’s Fashion Week celebrity models, including the Hadid sisters, Cara Delevingne and Joan Smalls, made appearances alongside artists like Normani.
A-listers entered Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for the show from Rihanna, a fashion and beauty mogul who unveiled the launch of her new luxury line with French powerhouse LVMH earlier this year.
Now in its second year, her hugely popular lingerie catwalk will stream on Amazon’s Prime Video service on September 20. Setting herself up as the anti-Victoria’s Secret — a thin-obsessed brand that this year cancelled its annual catwalk — Rihanna’s line features body-inclusive pieces from bombshell lace-up corsets and sheer floral thongs, to tomboy boyshorts and high-neck bralettes.
Despite — or perhaps because of — a social media ban inside the Barbadian star’s show, it still dominated Tuesday’s conversation as stars and stylists alike scrambled to exist in the shadow of Rihanna’s Instagram account, @badgirlriri.
Designer Vera Wang returned to the catwalk for the first time in several years.
For her return Wang, made famous by her wedding dress creations, proposed her vision of sensuality that featured confections of body-revealing tulle, and suspenders reminiscent of garter-belts.
“I dress a lot of Hollywood and I wanted to do my version of Hollywood when I’m not dressing a star in particular,” Ms. Wang said.
Inspired by the notion of a new decade, Coach designer Stuart Vevers “wanted a collection that was about change and also something that was stripped-back and upbeat, optimistic and looking forward to the new decade.”
