--- title: Rihanna Wears Pope Dress to 2018 Met Gala Red Carpet description: Rihanna proved once again why she is the undisputed queen of the Met Gala, when she showed up the this year's even in a show stopping look. canonical: https://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-07T23:30:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:28.280Z og:title: Rihanna Went Full Pope on the 2018 Met Gala Red Carpet og:description: It's a religious experience og:url: https://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2544da7ed641a54c/69892fc3bc6cfc54303e5e00/gettyimages-955755046.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rihanna Went Full Pope on the 2018 Met Gala Red Carpet twitter:description: It's a religious experience twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2544da7ed641a54c/69892fc3bc6cfc54303e5e00/gettyimages-955755046.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rihanna Going Full Pope on the 2018 Met Gala Red Carpet Is a Religious Experience  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 7, 2018 11:30 PM UTC  Met Gala host Rihanna attends the 2018 Met Gala in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/MG18/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Met Gala host Rihanna attends the 2018 Met Gala in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/MG18/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)Mike Coppola/MG18—Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 7, 2018 11:30 PM UTC It’s a fact universally acknowledged that [Rihanna is the queen of the annual Met Gala, ](http://time.com/4762629/rihanna-queen-met-gala-2017/)so obviously she topped all previous looks by going full-on Pope for [the 2018 ball](http://time.com/4756953/outrageous-met-gala-fashion/) in an apropos nod to the night’s theme, [_Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination_.](http://time.com/5015330/rihanna-met-gala-2018/) The entertainment, fashion, and beauty mogul, who co-chaired Monday night’s event alongside Anna Wintour, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace, arrived for the red carpet, resplendent in a pearl and crystal-embellished Maison Margiela gown that featured an overskirt that cut open to reveal a mini skirt, which she accessorized with a matching jacket and mitre style hat. Of course, Rihanna paired her show stopping look with a smokey eye, courtesy of Fenty Beauty, and dramatically bleached eyebrows. The bad gal’s avant garde Maison Margiela look was a perfect interpretation to the night’s theme, [_Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination_.](http://time.com/5015330/rihanna-met-gala-2018/) Rihanna’s undefeated excellence at the art of dressing for the Met Gala has long been the admiration of both the industry and the Internet; _Vogue_ editor André Leon Talley called her regal yellow (and undeniably meme-worthy) Guo Pei cape from the 2015 gala “the best Met Gala red carpet dress of all time” and with tonight’s look, it appears that Ri will be keeping her crown as the ultimate Met Gala attendee. The Internet certainly seemed to think so, taking to the web to share their many feelings about her brilliant look, with many of them finding their religion in her sartorial statement. > [](https://twitter.com/e%5Falexjung/status/993631209149358080) > [](https://twitter.com/GZB%5FNANA/status/993631514599546880) > [](https://twitter.com/JayD%5FExperience/status/993631509323173888) > [](https://twitter.com/Fleegull/status/993631507121131520) > [](https://twitter.com/%5FRoyallyCrowned/status/993631496123637761) > [](https://twitter.com/sow%5FbambiXO/status/993631487055532032) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/"},"headline":"Rihanna Going Full Pope on the 2018 Met Gala Red Carpet Is a Religious Experience","datePublished":"2018-05-07T23:30:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:28.280Z","description":"Your faves could never","url":"https://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Met Gala 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2544da7ed641a54c/69892fc3bc6cfc54303e5e00/gettyimages-955755046.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2544da7ed641a54c/69892fc3bc6cfc54303e5e00/gettyimages-955755046.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala - Red Carpet","caption":"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala - Red Carpet","creditText":"Mike Coppola/MG18—Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/","name":"Rihanna Going Full Pope on the 2018 Met Gala Red Carpet Is a Religious Experience"}}]}] ```