The Oscars are on tonight, which is really just an opportunity to enjoy yet another Rihanna concert while we patiently wait for her next album. And RiRi just arrived wearing...a giant T-shirt, no pants, and a bucket hat.
To be clear, this is not Rihanna’s red carpet look (though if it were, that would be iconic). Instead, it seems likely that she’s skipping the carpet and heading straight backstage to get ready for her performance during the show.
But if you’re dying over her look and need to know more, she’s reportedly wearing $380 Jean Paul Gaultier bucket hat, an Eagles jersey, and Puma sneakers.
Reminder: Rihanna is performing “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever during the show tonight and could potentially win her first Academy Award. Fellow nominees in the Best Music (Original Song) category include “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman, by Diane Warren; “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun, by Lady Gaga and Bloodpop; “Naatu Naatu” from RRR, by M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose; and “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once, by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski.
This will be Rihanna’s second performance while pregnant with her second child—her first obviously being the Super Bowl where her casual pregnancy reveal went down. About a week ahead of the Oscars, she joked that her baby son was jealous about not being her plus-one at during the performance, writing on Insta, “My son when he found out his sibling is going to the Oscars and not him.”
Ri recently opened up about motherhood to British Vogue, saying of the first few months of parenthood, “Oh, my god, it’s legendary. It’s everything. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever. You literally try to remember it—and there are photos of my life before—but the feeling, the desires, the things that you enjoy, everything, you just don’t identify with it because you don’t even allow yourself mentally to get that far, because…because it doesn’t matter.”
On that note, off to count down the minutes till RiRi takes the stage!
Mehera Bonner is a celebrity and entertainment news writer who enjoys Bravo and Antiques Roadshow with equal enthusiasm, She was previously entertainment editor at Marie Claire and has covered pop culture for over a decade.
