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Rihanna Performs Rare Fan Favorites for Billionaire’s Private Wedding Party in India​

Rihanna performed in Jamnagar on Friday, delivering a powerful set that included 'Umbrella,' 'Consideration,' 'Stay' and more.
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Rihanna‘s performance for the private pre-wedding bash of billionaire Mukesh Ambani‘s son left everyone without an invite green with envy.
Rihanna appeared on stage in India on Friday night for her first big live performance since her 2023 Super Bowl set. Footage of her singing rare fan favorites — including 2012’s “Stay,” her career-launching “Umbrella” and “Consideration,” a song she shares with SZA — began circulating on X thanks to a handful of gracious attendees who recorded much of the performance.
Rihanna tied in elements of her quick-cut Super Bowl setlist, even borrowing some of the dance moves choreographed by Parris Goebel, as she sang “Work,” Wild Thoughts,” “Birthday Cake,” “Pour It Up,” and “Pose” in the same order she did last February.

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There were no wardrobe changes, but she wore a dazzling, bead-embroidered green gown and closed the night wearing a hot pink headpiece. The Ambani family joined her on stage for a photo and hugs after the last song.
The concert, held in the family’s hometown of Jamnagar in India, was the first night of a three-day event to celebrate the wedding — which isn’t set to happen until later this summer — of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. According to several reports, countless high-profile people including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Disney CEO Bob Iger are on the guest list.
So how much money does it take to get Rihanna out of retirement?
The Daily Mail has estimated a starting price of six million which wouldn’t be a far-fetched guess seeing that the Ambani family reportedly spent over $100 million for Anant’s sister Isha’s wedding in 2018. The ceremony featured a performance by Beyoncé.
Anant is the youngest child of Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, which has stakes in telecom, oil and gas, along with retail and financial services. Forbes estimates his net worth is around $116 billion.
 

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Rihanna at her Savage x Fenty show in New York in 2018.CreditNina Westervelt for The New York Times
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Get ready for the second coming of Fenty.

On Friday, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group, officially confirmed not only that the fashion line created by Rihanna was becoming part of its gilded stable, but also that the first products from the new company would be unveiled — in a few weeks. Thus the disruption of the status quo begins.

Rihanna will become the first woman to create an original brand at LVMH, the first woman of color at the top of an LVMH maison, and her line will be the first new house created by the group since Christian Lacroix in 1987. It joins such storied heritage brands as Dior, Givenchy, Celine and Fendi and positions Rihanna as a breakthrough designer on a number of levels.

The move is a formal acknowledgment from the establishment that a multi-hyphenate pop star/actress/image-maker now has as much global currency, name-recognition and (yes) influence as designers like Hedi Slimane and Nicolas Ghesquière. That there is no need to limit them to the street or sportswear world. And that growth in the luxury industry may no longer come just from reinventing old heritage names, but by embracing a new diverse, digital, direct communication-enabled reality.

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“Designing a line like this with LVMH is an incredibly special moment for us,” Rihanna, 31, said in the statement. “Mr. Arnault has given me a unique opportunity to develop a fashion house in the luxury sector, with no artistic limits. I couldn’t imagine a better partner both creatively and business-wise, and I’m ready for the world to see what we have built together.”

originally leaked in January, but this is the first time either party has spoken about their agreement. It marks an evolution in the celebrity-style synergy, which has progressed from one-off collaborations (Selena Gomez and Coach) to longer term deals between sports brands and stars (Beyoncé and Adidas) to, now, the sort of brand that Emilio Pucci built.

first-quarter revenues in April of 12.5 billion euros ($14.1 billion), an increase of 16 percent — and the emphasis on “multicultural,” in a time when many luxury brands are suffering from charges of cultural insensitivity and discrimination, is significant.

LVMH has been making strides in recent years to right the gender balance in luxury, appointing the first female designers of Givenchy in 2017 and Dior in 2016. It has also begun to address the need for diversity, naming Virgil Abloh as the first African-American to head Louis Vuitton men’s wear in 2018.

Fenty, however, has made inclusivity of all kinds — size, race, gender identity — part of its identity from the beginning.


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Rihanna with her fans at the launch of Fenty Beauty's Stunna Lip Paint in Dubai in 2018.CreditFrancois Nel/Getty Images For Fenty Beauty
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before moving to Paris for two seasons and unexpectedly charming the normally suspicious French fashion world with the kind of clothes that, she said at the time, “Marie Antoinette would wear if she was going to the gym.”


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Though she has not shown ready-to-wear on the runway since September 2017, there is no reason to expect the new version of Fenty will be significantly different from the old, though presumably it will benefit from the manufacturing and materials savoir-faire of LVMH.

In other words, expect haute streetwear of many sizes and shades.

Both parties declined to comment further on the plans for a show or stores, but the inclusion of a website — fenty.com — in the statement suggested that the focus, for the beginning at least, would be digital, yet another departure for a group that practically invented the concept of the flagship as brand temple.

LVMH’s first foray into original couture, Lacroix, did not end too well; it sold the brand in 2005, and the name is now largely associated with an unrelated sparkling water. Whether this story will rewrite the playbook of luxury remains to be seen. But the first chapter is about to begin.

 

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There were no wardrobe changes, but she wore a dazzling, bead-embroidered green gown and closed the night wearing a hot pink headpiece. The Ambani family joined her on stage for a photo and hugs after the last song.
The concert, held in the family’s hometown of Jamnagar in India, was the first night of a three-day event to celebrate the wedding — which isn’t set to happen until later this summer — of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. According to several reports, countless high-profile people including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Disney CEO Bob Iger are on the guest list.







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