Monochrome at the Met

Rihanna reveals her baby bump amid the mostly black-and-white looks at the Met Gala

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NEW YORK - Singer Rihanna revealed her third pregnancy, singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams sported a jacket with 15,000 pearls and musician Andre 3000 strapped a piano to his back as celebrities celebrated black style and tailoring at the Met Gala fundraiser on May 5.

Mostly black-and-white looks populated the daffodil-accented deep-blue carpet covering the steps to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As the guests arrived, assistants sheltered them under umbrellas in the heavy rain.

Formula One British driver Lewis Hamilton and American actor Colman Domingo, co-chairs of the gala, were among the first of the stars of sports, music, film and television to appear.

Domingo paid tribute to the late Andre Leon Talley, Vogue's first black creative director and one of fashion's towering figures, in a royal blue Valentino cape with a glittering white collar over a snazzy black and gold jacket and grey tweed trousers.

Hamilton, meanwhile, wowed in a sharp cream suit and matching backwards cap, diamonds glittering on his ears, as well as on his lapel, cuffs and hands.

The last to arrive was Barbadian singer Rihanna, who sported a wide-brimmed black hat and a striped, corseted bodice that hugged her baby bump. Her partner, American musician A$AP Rocky, had arrived earlier and confirmed that Rihanna was pregnant with the couple's third child. They have two sons, born in 2022 and 2023.

He said: "I'm glad everybody's happy for us because we're definitely happy."

American rapper Andre 3000 turned heads with one of the most over-the-top looks - a replica of a piano that he hauled on his back like a backpack.