This Is What It Was Like to Attend Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty Show — Spoiler Alert: It Was Amazing

Only Rihanna can make getting into a NYFW show feel like you're applying to join the FBI. I had been to the singer's first Savage x Fenty show — there were holographic Riris! — so I was wondering how she was going to top that. Enter her Fall/Winter 2019 collection. Rihanna held her second show at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and the show's list of requirements to get in was pretty intense, to say the least.

Since Amazon is streaming the show on Sept. 20 (you can already shop the collection on the website!) there was a strict no photo / video rule, which meant my cell phone had to be put into a locked pouch. At first, I wondered how I would ever manage to stay away from my phone for the entire night — the show was 40 minutes long, not including the red carpet — but then I t