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  • Comment: This should probably be merged into Guo Pei's article for now. It almost has enough for its own page, but its not quite there yet. BuySomeApples (talk) 00:28, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Yellow Guo Pei dress of Rihanna
DesignerGuo Pei
Year2010
TypeCanary yellow opera coat
Materialsilk and fox fur

At the 2015 Met Gala, Barbadian singer and business magnate Rihanna wore a coat with a long, elaborate train, colloquially known as the "omelette dress".[1] The dress was designed by Chinese fashion designer and couturier Guo Pei, who first presented the dress in her spring/summer 2010 haute couture collection titled "Arabian 1002 Nights".[2] After the ceremony, the dress was met to widespread acclaim and praise, citing the dress as one of Rihanna's best red carpet moments, and one of the most significant moments in both Met Gala and fashion history.[3][4]

Background and design edit

Chinese fashion designer and couturier Guo Pei presented her spring/summer 2010 haute couture collection titled "Arabian 1002 Nights", where she showcased a series of elaborately designed and crafted haute couture pieces that took inspiration from both classical Chinese and Arabic aesthetics.[5][6] One piece presented was a canary yellow opera coat made of Italian silk, embroidered with vine and ivy-like gold motifs and trimmed with yellow fox fur. The coat was notable for its sweeping train, reportedly measuring 16 feet long, weighing over 55 pounds, and involved approximately 8-10,000 hours of handcrafted work over the span of two years.[7]

On September 11, 2014, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, alongside the Anna Wintour Costume Center announced the theme for the 2015 Met Gala, titled "China: Through The Looking Glass", the annual fashion exhibition which explored the history, aesthetics, and influence of Chinese fashion and craft. According to Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Center, he attempted to curate the exhibition to "primarily examine how eastward-looking Westerners have understood and misunderstood Chinese culture".[8] Rihanna, as an invited attendee, was looking to the internet for "Chinese couture"[9], where she came across the canary yellow dress. Rihanna reportedly called Pei, where she admitted to not knowing much about Rihanna, and "was really not convinced that she would be able to wear it because ... it’s very heavy".[10] Rihanna reportedly responded by calling her piece "beautiful", and "gained the courage to wear that".

The coat, commonly referred to as a "dress", was styled by stylist Mel Ottenberg, who had been working with Rihanna on fashion and creative direction since 2011.[11] Rihanna also paired the coat with Cartier jewelry, Christian Louboutin high heels, and a complementary Guo Pei headpiece from the same collection the coat originates from.[12] Her hair was styled in a flipped-out crimson red bob and blunt eyebrow makeup and eyeshadow.[13] Besides the coat, Rihanna also wore three other looks after the red carpet, which consisted of a sheer black Maison Margiela top, a cherry red Stella McCartney column gown for the museum dinner, and a Chinese motif inspired Maison Margiela bustier top for her performance.[14]

Reception edit

Rihanna's wearing of the coat received widespread acclaim and garnered attention from multiple culture and fashion outlets. Sophie Schulte-Hillen, Michella Ore, and Lauren Valenti of Vogue hailed it as one of the best Met Gala looks of all time, stating the look as a "showstopper".[4] Rachel Tashjian of Vanity Fair hailed it a "red-carpet winning dress", highlighting and praising Rihanna for being one of "few attendees at this year's Met Gala...to wear a Chinese designer".[15] Ellie Krupnick of Mic praised Rihanna for wearing a Chinese designer to a Chinese-themed fashion event, stating that she "demonstrated how to honor a culture that's not your own".[16]

The dress also became subject to many Internet memes, primarily comparing it to eggs and omelettes. Gregory Babcock of Complex highlighted this, writing, "leave it to the good people of the Internet to turn a couture dress into a meme".[17]

Influence and legacy edit

The coat is often cited as a turning point for both Met Gala fashion and red carpet fashion in general. Stephy Chung of CNN Style named the look as "one of the event's most unforgettable outfits".[18] Christian Allaire of Vogue, wrote that "the Met Gala has played host to a number of extravagant trains over the years", in which he cites that "Rihanna drove that point home in 2015 when she swanned in wearing a yellow fur-lined Guo Pei masterpiece of legendary proportions".[19] In an interview with Rihanna, Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief for Vogue and Conde Nast, stated the coat had received over "two billion impressions".[20] Constance Grady of Vox cited Rihanna's fashion as "playful, intellectual, and deeply committed", and stated the look "instantly became iconic".[21]Guo Pei, the designer of the coat, said that "the focus and the attention paid to this dress will make it remembered by the world—[what] I want is to make them remember. . . . It is my responsibility to let the world know China’s tradition and past, and to give the splendor of China a new expression. I hope that people do know China in this way"[15]. She then thanked Rihanna for bringing Chinese fashion and haute couture into the public perception, stating that "Rihanna wearing my design had a great impact – and the international fashion industry gained a new understanding of me".[22]

The coat made several best dressed lists of the 2010s decade.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

In 2017, The Savannah College of Art and Design presented a special exhibition of the yellow coat, alongside 40 other haute couture creations from Guo Pei, citing Rihanna's coat as "a seminal moment that introduced Guo Pei to America’s fashion cognoscenti".[29]

in 2018, a fashion documentary directed by New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly titled Yellow Is Forbidden was released, detailing the work of Guo Pei, primarily exploring the imperial yellow coat Rihanna wore.[30]

In honor of the 2022 Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art honored Rihanna with a digital rendition of a marble statue posing as her on her May 2021 Vogue magazine cover.[31][32]

References edit

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  4. ^ a b Nast, Condé (April 16, 2022). "The 28 best Met Gala beauty looks of all time". Vogue India. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
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