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Home · Fashion Week

Rihanna’s Fenty x Puma Show Brought The Excitement Back To New York Fashion Week

The singer turned designer definitely knows how to put on a show.
Rihanna’s Fenty x Puma Show Brought The Excitement Back To New York Fashion Week
Paul Morigi
By Crystal Tate · Updated October 26, 2020
Rihanna has already had quite the eventful Fashion Week. On Thursday night, she launched her long-awaited makeup line Fenty Beauty in New York City, and last night, she debuted the Spring 2018 collection of Fenty x Puma, and her show didn’t disappoint at all.
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From her front row to the models to the clothing, Rihanna put on quite a spectacle at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory. Here are some of the biggest highlights of the show: The Show Opening:  Glittery pink mountains set the stage for the show, and the show opened with BMX riders literally doing flips over the mountains.

⚠️THE #FENTYxPUMA SHOW IS OPENING WITH BMX⚠️ pic.twitter.com/N8kmQz5JwP

— Maeve McDermott (@maeve_mcdermott) September 11, 2017
The Clothes: Brightly colored scuba-inspired sportswear took center stage and included oversized jackets, track pants, biker shorts and high cut swimsuits. As for shoes, there were Creepers (of course!) and also a heeled flip-flop.

#FENTYxPUMA SS18 shout out to all my beautiful and talented models who absolutely murdered this show last night ... go to @WWD to see the full collection.

A post shared by badgalriri (@badgalriri) on Sep 11, 2017 at 7:10am PDT

The Models: A few of our favorite Black models hit the runway at Fenty x Puma including Joan Smalls, Duckie Thot and Selena Forrest. Slick Woods, who stars in the Fenty Beauty campaign, also walked for Fenty x Puma.

Just as soon as you thought the Fenty show couldn't get any better. Eternally grateful for you @badgalriri

A post shared by @ slickwoods on Sep 10, 2017 at 7:41pm PDT

The Makeup: The models all hit the runway in Rihanna’s fresh-off-the-shelves makeup line Fenty Beauty, which is designed to give you a flawless complexion.   The Front Row: Naturally, the front row was filled with some of our favorite stars including Cardi B, Offset, Whoopi Goldberg, Big Sean and Jhene Aiko. The Show Closing:

And @rihanna came out on a motorcycle at the end of #FENTYxPUMA, because of course pic.twitter.com/3k3DHBJzHu

— Maeve McDermott (@maeve_mcdermott) September 11, 2017
Instead of a final bow or wave, Rihanna decided to delight her audience by riding out on the back of a BMX. They don’t call her ‘bad gal RiRi’ for nothing!
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