It’s been three years since Rihanna was in Paris, but she made quite a splash during Paris Fashion Week. Chioma Nnadi is the editor of Vogue.com, a journalist with the fab assignment of interviewing the megawatt mother-to-be in ‘Oh, Baby! Rihanna’s Plus One.

Alex Harrington and Rihanna’s main man Jahleel Weaver — well now he share’s her with A$AP Rocky — style Rihanna in fit for The Ritz fashion. Photographer Annie Leibovitz [IG] is behind the lens.

The lineup includes an Alaïa bodysuit and creme-colored, bodycon dress; Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture By Glenn Martens dress; Marc Jacobs coat; Rick Owens jacket and skirt; Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello coatJ ewelry is from Boucheron, Briony Raymond, Chopard, Messika and more./ Hair by Jawara; makeup by Kanako Takase

Nnadi meets Rihanna at Caviar Kaspia, her last stop on a Friday night of restaurant hopping. The rarely-out-of-favor haunt has been transformed for two weeks into an Off-White outpost. The legend is already in the restaurant, writes Nnadi, “curled up on the banquette in an oversized khaki parka with a slinky turquoise catsuit beneath, a look I recognize from Stella McCartney’s last show. Her shoe of choice? A four-inch stiletto heel.”

“As much as it’s happening, it’s also not happening,” Rihana says, patting her belly, only partially visible above the table. “Sometimes I’ll walk past my reflection and be like, Oh shit!”

Nnadi notes what many of us already observed: “Over the last two weeks, she’s changed something profound in fashion—single-handedly rewriting the rules of pregnancy dressing with one jaw-dropping style maneuver after another.”

Pregnancy dressing has changed dramatically in recent decades, with mothers-to-be embracing their baby bumps of all sizes and in any month of pregnancy. Beyonce advanced maternity dress, taking big steps forward in celebrating the transformation of her body, while being unable to control it.

Rihanna has made pregnancy a show-stopping fashion moment, in which most women — especially in America’s red states — could get arrested. Someway, somehow, the baby in waiting is suffering irreparable harm — - to say nothing of the leering audience, fixated on her beautiful belly.

Surely in Texas, Rihanna would be arrested on some charge of public immorality. But even in Oklahoma — forget Milan and Paris — there are multitudes of women saying “right on, Sis.” You could say that large numbers of women trust Rihanna’s instincts in these matters.

Rihanna channels eternal goddess power. For tens of thousands of years, this body shape and the miracle of child birth were a great source of power to women, originally worshipped for this power of procreation.

Throughout her pregnancy, Rihanna has dressed like a 21st century Venus of Willendorf, and she hopes that women take note. “I’m hoping that we were able to redefine what’s considered ‘decent’ for pregnant women,” she tells me. “My body is doing incredible things right now, and I’m not going to be ashamed of that. This time should feel celebratory. Because why should you be hiding your pregnancy?”

We learn a bit about Rihanna and Rocky, able to afford an epic road trip they took in summer 2020 from Los Angeles to New York.

Meandering across the country on a big tour bus, they were able to get away from the glare of the public eye. They’d park and Rihanna would grill barefoot while Rocky tie-dyed T-shirts picked up at the gas station. “I cooked our food on this little janky grill I bought from Walmart,” she remembers. “I still have it, too. It works like nobody’s business.” No matter where they stopped, they always had fun. “I love the simple things but also the grand adventures,” she says. “There’s no pretentious my-brand-your-brand bullshit, it’s just us living,” she says of their existence together. “I just feel like I can do any part of life by his side.”

The next step to confirm her madly-in-love state was taking Rocky home to Barbados.

A Harlem native, Rocky has roots also in Barbados, home to his late father. “To see him in a space where he’s imagining his dad as a boy, walking the same streets as his dad walked, eating the same food as his dad ate, it was really heartwarming,” Rihanna declared.

Fast-forward about 30 paragraphs, and we say good night.

Read much more interview talk on Vogue.com. Chioma Naadi says that Rihanna’s maternal instincts were kicking in.

As I start to order an Uber, she shoots me a worried look. She’d prefer to give me a ride home, if that’s okay. “You know it’s just not safe out there at this hour.” And really, how can I argue with her. Mother knows best.