Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are, to appropriate the most millennial of internet slang, couple goals. Their musical collaborations – particularly A$AP’s Fashion Killa and Ri’s “Cockiness (Love It)” – are just as popular 10 years after their respective release dates, but it is their relationship with fashion that has perhaps left a greater mark on culture. “Like iron sharpening iron,” is how Rihanna once described their approach to dress.
From serving Victoria and David-style leathers at Giorgio Baldi, to sporting his-and-hers Gucci at Milan Fashion Week, the duo have frequently been positioned as the dernier cri of date-night dressing. See also: the custom Loewe and archive Comme des Garçons that have defined the couple’s post-Met Gala jaunts to New York over the last two years. And that is to say nothing of the coordinating Rick Owens, Schiaparelli and Bottega Veneta looks they have both employed on the red carpet. (Red-carpet events do count as dates when your relationship has acquired a celebrity of its own.)
Below, see a handful of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s most exemplary date-night looks of all time.
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A Comme des Garçons T-shirt dress, fistfuls of jewels and a Gucci Horsebit bag: this is how Rihanna and A$AP Rocky celebrate Mothering Sunday.
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Both of them well-tailored in New York, Rihanna doubled down on double denim, while A$AP Rocky opted for a breezier, pale sage suit with a Bottega Veneta Andiamo hoicked over his shoulder.
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Birthday boy A$AP Rocky and Rihanna were snapped leaving Carbone. He was dressed in full-look Bottega Veneta, she was dressed in Balenciaga pantaleggings, a Cecilie Bahnsen jacket and a tulle bustier from Philosophy.
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At the 2023 Cannes Lions, Rihanna channelled that now-iconic Dior dress – sheer and boudoir-ish – in a spring/summer 2001 Jean Paul Gaultier fishnet dress. A$AP Rocky, meanwhile, wore a kilt and a technical gilet.
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Rihanna once again caused tectonic shifts in style because she refused to purchase smocked dresses while pregnant. She is photographed here in the days after the 2023 Met Gala, wearing head-to-toe Loewe.
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A$AP Rocky and Rihanna were photographed leaving The Carlyle Hotel before the 2023 Met Gala, with A$AP in full-look Gucci and Rihanna teasing what would later be a frame-consuming Valentino spectacle on the museum steps.
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At the Golden Globes in matching red-carpet looks: Rihanna in custom Schiaparelli and A$AP wearing a Bottega Veneta tuxedo.
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Setting the internet ablaze at the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premiere in Los Angeles – Rihanna opted for a sequin-covered Rick Owens strapless dress, while A$AP complemented his wife’s look with matching earth tones.
