--- title: Rihanna's Met Ball Dress: Jimmy Kimmel Calls It a 'Rihanket' description: Rihanna's dress is everything you could want canonical: https://time.com/3848542/jimmy-kimmel-rihanna-met-ball-dress/ author: Esther Zuckerman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-06T16:12:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:28.902Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Pitches Rihanna's Met Ball Dress as 'Rihanket' og:description: Rihanna's dress is everything you could want og:url: https://time.com/3848542/jimmy-kimmel-rihanna-met-ball-dress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Pitches Rihanna's Met Ball Dress as 'Rihanket' twitter:description: Rihanna's dress is everything you could want twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Kimmel Pitches Rihanna's Met Ball Dress as 'Rihanket' by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 6, 2015 4:12 PM UTC by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 6, 2015 4:12 PM UTC Jimmy Kimmel has a relatively useful take on Rihanna’s elaborate Met Gala dress—that yellow, [meme-producing](http://time.com/3846906/rihanna-met-gala/) behemoth. On his show, Kimmel introduced the “Rihanket” with a faux infomercial that declares: “It’s a dress. It’s a coat. It’s a blanket. It’s a tent. It mops. It dusts.” Need a chuppah for a wedding? The “Rihanket” has you covered. There’s also a bonus product that comes with the “Rihanket.” It’s a “Kardashian Kloth,” after the dress Kim Kardashian wore to the gala, and it subs as a “curtain for a dollhouse window.” Now we wait for [Rihanna to take her revenge](http://time.com/3768373/rihanna-prank-jimmy-kimmel/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3848542/jimmy-kimmel-rihanna-met-ball-dress/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3848542/jimmy-kimmel-rihanna-met-ball-dress/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Pitches Rihanna's Met Ball Dress as 'Rihanket'","datePublished":"2015-05-06T16:12:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:28.902Z","description":"Rihanna's dress is everything you could want","url":"https://time.com/3848542/jimmy-kimmel-rihanna-met-ball-dress/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Rihanna","Jimmy Kimmel","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Esther Zuckerman","jobTitle":"Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3848542/jimmy-kimmel-rihanna-met-ball-dress/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Pitches Rihanna's Met Ball Dress as 'Rihanket'"}}]}] ```