With apologies to all of the butter yellow acolytes out there, Rihanna has had enough of the reigning pastel.
The beauty mogul touched down in Mumbai, India earlier this week for a Fenty Beauty pop-up. For the occasion, Rih eschewed the soft butter yellow in favor of a bold chartreuse look: a flowing mock-neck long-sleeved top and a flared, ankle-length leather skirt, both of which appear to hail from Miguel Castro Freitas’ fall 2026 collectsion for Mugler. She added a pair of point-toe asymmetrical heels in the same bold shade.
Rihanna honored her host country with jewelry by Manish Malhotra—heaps of gold bracelets inlaid with a rainbow of cabochons, intricate earrings, and a gold hathphool that wound up her hand.
Butter yellow has been the dominant hue for the last several seasons, but it seems to be ceding some ground to the likes of cobalt blue, split pea soup green, and royal purple. Now, Rihanna’s allegiance to the greener, more vibrant chartreuse threatens to topple its reign altogether. This is, after all, the woman who hit the 2015 Met Gala red carpet in a marigold Guo Pei gown with a train that stretched on for ages. She practically invented the color yellow.
