Nobody is aware of learn how to work (work, work, work, work, work) the Met Gala Purple Carpet like Rihanna.

In current years, the Bad Gal’s persistently topped each best-dressed checklist on the primary Monday in May, displaying up in spectacular kinds starting from 2015’s golden Guo Pei cape to 2018’s pope-inspired couture.

But Rihanna didn’t all the time reign over vogue’s greatest evening. In truth, the seems to be she selected for her first few Met Galas within the late 2000s (together with a white halter robe and a puff-sleeved black pantsuit) had been downright demure.

It could have taken a while for the Grammy winner to grasp the artwork of dressing for the Met, however nowadays, Rihanna may as properly be the one woman on the earth on the purple carpet.

Below, a glance again at each outfit the fashion famous person’s worn to the Met Gala.

2007

Rihanna snagged her first-ever invite to Vogue’s star-studded fundraiser only a few months after the discharge of “Umbrella,” the track that skyrocketed her musical profession.

For her Met debut, the Barbadian magnificence wore a bedazzled white Georges Chakra halter robe paired with black fishnet gloves and a razor-sharp asymmetrical bob, hinting at her “Good Girl Gone Bad” period to return.

2009

The “Rude Boy” singer suited up for the “Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion”-themed fête wanting recent off the runway in Dolce & Gabbana.

Black leather-based biker gloves, an electrical blue cat eye and a blond-streaked pixie minimize added edge to the menswear-inspired second.

2011

Just name her Rihpunzel. The songstress sported a putting waist-length scarlet braid to the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” gala, together with a single-sleeved black lace robe by Stella McCartney lined in light-catching beads.

Christian Louboutin sandals and emerald Wilfredo Rosado earrings completed off the star’s romantic look.

2012

Croc ‘n’ roll! Rihanna shimmed right into a skintight, reptile-embossed leather-based Tom Ford costume the next yr, baring her claws with a set of jet-black acrylics.

She styled her half-shaved hair in a trio of tall buns advert wore minimal make-up, permitting her curve-hugging robe to take heart stage.

2014

Leave it to Rih to make a crop high work on the yr’s fanciest and most formal purple carpet.

The “We Found Love” hitmaker was white-hot on this tattoo-baring two-piece Stella McCartney ensemble, which she spiced up with loads of bling — together with a surprising diamond choker from Jacob & Co.

2015

Unquestionably the look that cemented Rihanna’s standing because the Met Gala’s reigning “Fashion Killa,” the musician’s yellow fur-trimmed Guo Pei robe was a flawless alternative for the “China: Through The Looking Glass”-themed gala.

Weighing in at a whopping 55 kilos, requiring round two years to make and topped off with a regal gilded headpiece, the canary-colored couture birthed numerous memes; Rihanna later admitted she apprehensive about it being “an excessive amount of” for the event.

“I keep in mind being so scared to get out of that automobile … I used to be driving previous the purple carpet, and I used to be simply seeing, like, robes, and I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, I’m a clown. People are going to giggle at me,” she advised “Access Hollywood” in 2020.

“I circled like, thrice, I’m not even joking. And lastly, I used to be like, ‘Whatever, let’s go. Let’s simply go. Let’s simply go.’ I do know. I don’t remorse it.’”

Nor ought to she.

2017

The Bad Gal regarded blooming lovely on the “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art Of The In-Between” gala, embracing the night’s “avant-garde” costume code in a pink multi-petaled look from (the place else?) Comme des Garçons.

Rihanna went bolder together with her magnificence look than typical — choosing dramatic rosy blush and eye make-up together with a burgundy lip — and topped issues off with a glossy high knot.

As for these thigh-high strappy sandals? “The sneakers took me an hour to get into,” she advised Vogue’s André Leon Talley on the purple carpet.

2018

Rihanna served as a gala co-chair the next yr — and served fairly the look on the carpet.

As a nod to the evening’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” theme, she confirmed up in a papal-inspired minidress, gown and mitre by Maison Margiela Artisanal’s John Galliano, all fully encrusted with pearls and crystals.

“It was heavy, each step was a squat,” she confessed to “Entertainment Tonight” a number of days after the ball. “I promise you my butt gained from that evening.”

2021

Rihanna arrived fashionably late on the “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” gala alongside boyfriend A$AP Rocky, marking the couple’s purple carpet debut.

Of her outsized black Balenciaga coat costume and beanie, she advised Essence, “I wished a glance that appeared very highly effective but female, but a black hoodie which is the factor that we’re normally incriminated by as black individuals. I wished to empower that. I wished to take that and make it mine and make it vogue.”

A sprinkling of jewels from Bulgari, Thelma West and Maria Tash ensured her outfit shone vibrant like a … properly, you recognize.