--- title: Met Gala 2018: Rihanna Borrowed a Real Cardinal's Hat description: If you thought nothing could make you love Rihanna's Met Gala outfit anymore than you already did, then think again. canonical: https://time.com/5271174/met-gala-2018-rihanna-cardinal-hat/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-09T16:35:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:46.081Z og:title: Rihanna Borrowed a Real Cardinal's Hat for Her Met Gala Outfit og:description: "She was very gracious" og:url: https://time.com/5271174/met-gala-2018-rihanna-cardinal-hat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74d99943394b3090/69892fea97cdff51276b52ce/rihanna-hat-met-gala-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rihanna-Hat-Met-Gala-2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rihanna Borrowed a Real Cardinal's Hat for Her Met Gala Outfit twitter:description: "She was very gracious" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74d99943394b3090/69892fea97cdff51276b52ce/rihanna-hat-met-gala-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rihanna Borrowed a Real Cardinal's Hat for Her Met Gala Outfit  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 9, 2018 4:35 PM UTC  Rihanna attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. Rihanna attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.Jason Kempin/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 9, 2018 4:35 PM UTC If you thought nothing could make you love [Rihanna’s Met Gala outfit](http://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/) anymore than you already did, then think again. It was obvious that [Queen Rih](http://time.com/5269643/met-gala-2018-sza-rihanna-video/) absolutely crushed the night’s theme of [_Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination_](http://time.com/5269657/best-red-carpet-fashion-2018-met-gala/)with her full-on papal getup. But to top it all off, the 30-year-old fashion mogul apparently borrowed the mitre style hat that she paired with her jewel-encrusted Maison Margiela gown from a real cardinal. In an interview with [SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel](https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news-issues/cardinal-dolan-talks-about-the-met-gala-2018), Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the head of New York’s Roman Catholic diocese, revealed that he lent Rihanna a formal mitre for the occasion. “The news said she was wearing a tiara,” he said, noting that it was actually one of his hats. “She gave it back to me this morning…She was very gracious.” Dolan went on to joke about what how Rih planned to repay him for his generosity. “I was teasing my auxiliary bishops, who were teasing me about Rihanna and I said, ‘Hey, you guys should not complain because she’s volunteered to do some confirmations,'” he quipped. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5271174/met-gala-2018-rihanna-cardinal-hat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5271174/met-gala-2018-rihanna-cardinal-hat/"},"headline":"Rihanna Borrowed a Real Cardinal's Hat for Her Met Gala Outfit","datePublished":"2018-05-09T16:35:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:46.081Z","description":"\"She was very gracious\"","url":"https://time.com/5271174/met-gala-2018-rihanna-cardinal-hat/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Rihanna","Met Gala 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74d99943394b3090/69892fea97cdff51276b52ce/rihanna-hat-met-gala-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74d99943394b3090/69892fea97cdff51276b52ce/rihanna-hat-met-gala-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rihanna-Hat-Met-Gala-2018","caption":"Rihanna attends the 2018 Met Gala","creditText":"Jason Kempin/Getty Images","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/5271174/met-gala-2018-rihanna-cardinal-hat/","name":"Rihanna Borrowed a Real Cardinal's Hat for Her Met Gala Outfit"}}]}] ```