A shawl for fall? Rihanna is way ahead of you.
Photographed exiting her Paris hotel with her partner A$AP Rocky, Rihanna leaned into the most casual part of her style spectrum. Wearing blue denim jeans and a brown tank top, she draped a velvety brown shawl-coat loosely around her shoulders. The look was styled simply, with mask-like, brown-lensed aviator-style sunglasses from The Attico, and A$AP Rocky x Puma Inhale sneakers in similar earthy tones.
Rih is an outré outerwear pro: that one-of-a-kind Saint Laurent heart-shaped jacket, a snakeskin Supreme trench from deep in the Rih archive. She also loves a statement hoodie moment, and luxurious comfies.
It was a marked switch-up from the duo’s appearance at the 2025 CFDA Awards, where Rocky was being presented with the Style Icon Award. Rihanna went for the sleek tailoring route, opting for a stealthy-chic trench coat and white pleated trousers from Alaïa.
Shawls, ponchos, pashminas, and more drapey coats are having a bit of a moment this fall, after a summer of scarves over trousers. (And if you’re Rihanna, as a skirt.) Dakota Johnson, styled by Kate Young, took to the stage at the Zurich Film Festival in look 39 from Maximilian Davis’s Ferragamo fall 2025 collection, with a black silk cape over her gray sweater. Kendall Jenner and Ayo Edebiri have embraced draped coats, while one Vogue writer wrote an ode to the elevated poncho. Whatever your tastes, the fall shawl seems like the move.
