Year 2022: on the night of the Oscars Rihanna goes to the after party organized by Beyoncé and Jay-Z. She wears a high-necked Valentino dress in organza with a black bandeau top underneath, long gloves and a sequined skirt. On her feet, learning Kristen Stewart’s style lesson, she has a pair of sneakers. Under the transparent outfit, as always, the baby bump on display.
Rihanna. Ipa photo
WONG / ipa-agency.netThe look, moreover, lived up to Rihanna’s maternity wardrobe repertoire, expertly crafted to show off her growing baby bump. And it is also very similar to the Dior one sported by the super popstar and entrepreneur in Parisi: basically a black veil made a dress to reveal maternity and sexy lingerie.
Rihanna in Paris. Getty photo
Edward BerthelotBecause (thanks RiRi) pregnant women today are not forced to wear – not only large and improbable draperies – but not even Bridget Jones-like containment underwear. Indeed, rectification: Rihanna, in the name of freedom (and we talked about it here) claims to being able to show themselves and wear what they like even if the body is transformed. Why, then, repetita iuvantthe body is his and it’s his business.
From here, applause and chapeau digital: even if some criticism from the usual keyboard lions remains, by now Rihanna has made it and has been acquitted by the arena of the web and the world. For her thumbs up and the big cats that still growl, do it behind cybernetic bars. Rihanna was not mauled but entered the history of the baby bump. Fortunate moreover to be pregnant today and, we repeat this too, in the year 2022.
Because the singer, we reveal, has not done anything new. And herein lies the news. If we rewind the tape of 11 years we find a pregnant celeb with a separate look at birth to the transparent ones of the Barbados star.
Year 2011: on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festivalat the preview of the film Melancholia, Charlotte Gainsbourg highlights her baby bump, wrapped in a sheer black chiffon dress paired with a lace bra. The French actress is expecting her third child and then she is in a clear contrast to the other future VIP mothers of the period.
Charlotte Gainsbourg in Cannes in 2011. Photo Getty
George PimentelJane Birkin’s daughter, who appears self-confident under the flashes of photographers and, for this reason, very sexy, isccused to exhibit her pregnancy too casually. Her outfit is defined as daring and immediately they rain against her bad accusations. «A daring outfit, perhaps a little too much» headline newspapers and magazines.
In short, bad taste yesterday, today it wins body positive, yesterday something to (un) talk about, today a wave across the board. Eleven years and luckily something has changed. The times are now ripe, the eyes are truly freer from constraints. Rihanna changed the rules, sure, but she did it because she got there at the right time. Timing, in cultural revolutions, always plays her part.
In the gallery, the mum-to-be looks of Rihanna and Charlotte Gainsbourg in comparison.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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