Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Rihanna snubbed Naomi Campbell and Law Roach at Alaia New York fashion show 2024 at Guggenheim.
A minute later the glass doors of the Upper East Side museum flickered with the reflection of flashbulbs from the sidewalk outside. The room was already quiet and then hush. Preceded by a flying V of security, in walked Rihanna, or rather she glided across the terrazzo floor. Clutching her custom Alaïa crystal mesh dress across her chest like Botticelli’s Venus emerging from the shell, the nautilus of the Frank Lloyd Wright interior rising above her, the mononym icon appeared like a siren fresh from a shimmering sea. The sheer fishnet dress fell off her shoulders, the embedded crystals like glittering drops of water. Underneath, a pearl-adorned cream satin thong corset and strappy heels also decorated with pearls continued the aquatic theme.
9:08 p.m. The rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum was quiet. The Alaïa show was called for 8:30 p.m., we had passed the acceptable 30-minute wait time, and it was the end of a long first day of New York Fashion Week. Packed tight like sardines on round leather banquettes the fashion industry’s heavy hitters made small talk with neighbors or tapped urgently on their phones; little islands of impatience.
