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Inside the former Emigrant Savings Bank in downtown Manhattan, money was on a late start for A$AP Rocky<\/a>\u2019s AWGE show. It was 30 minutes past the listed show time, and the venue was mostly empty. Invited guests were still waiting for the main doors to open, although a few early VIP arrivals were already inside the room, mingling as jazz music played overhead. It might have felt serene, if not for the palpable anticipation growing for one VIP\u2019s imminent arrival.<\/p>\n Rihanna <\/a>and the rest of the crowd entered the room just before 9 p.m. once the singer took her seat \u2014 with a mob of photographers capturing the moment \u2014 and the show quickly got started.<\/p>\n More from WWD<\/strong><\/p>\n After A$AP Rocky took his bow, VIPs including A$AP Nast, A$AP Illz, Julia Fox, Young M.A and former boxer Eric Kelly headed downstairs to the backstage where A$AP Rocky was holding court. After a brief huddle off to the side with Rihanna<\/a>, the rapper headed into a mirrored AWGE-branded former vault to field questions about the collection.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to break the fourth wall,\u201d said Rocky of his concept for his third collection. The set design featured glam stations, where models stopped for touch-ups during the show. \u201cI guess that\u2019s why ya\u2019ll see us getting ready, the imperfections. There was so much that went wrong live, but it was like, f\u2013k it, that\u2019s what makes the show all the merrier. It makes it better.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked what\u2019s next on the agenda, the rapper-designer-actor deferred his answer to a higher power.<\/p>\n \u201cWhatever God got in store for me,\u201d he said. \u201cNot to get all religious on you, but I\u2019m a spiritual guy. I go with the flow. I\u2019m getting to live out all my different creative endeavors, and God has been really great to me.\u201d<\/p>\n But first, he was headed across town to Soho House. \u201cI wanna go home, and just chillax and wind down and s\u2013t,\u201d Rocky added. \u201cBut I\u2019ve got a freaking after party.\u201d<\/p>\n Launch Gallery: Celebrities Front Row at AWGE Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear Show Photos<\/a><\/p>\n Best of WWD<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for WWD’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inside the former Emigrant Savings Bank in downtown Manhattan, money was on a late start for A$AP Rocky\u2019s AWGE show. It was 30 minutes past the listed show time, and the venue was mostly empty. Invited guests were still waiting for the main doors to open, although a few early VIP arrivals were already inside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2282324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[442122,24581,316694],"class_list":["post-2282323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-emigrant-savings-bank","tag-rihanna","tag-wwd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Celebrities-at-AWGE-Fall-2026-Rihanna-AAP-Nast-and-More.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282325,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282323\/revisions\/2282325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}