Rihanna heads out for Italian dinner wearing an amazing technicolor dreamcoat

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She's often turning heads with her bold fashion choices, but singer Rihanna's latest look is dramatic even by her standards.
The 25-year-old wore an oriental-style maxi jacket as she dined at one of her favourite Los Angeles eateries on Sunday night ahead of her birthday on February 20.
The pretty star headed to Giorgio Baldi, a haunt she has visited many times before, which specialises in pizzas and other Italian food.

Wacky style: Rihanna wore a dramatic long coat to dine at Giorgio Baldi in Los Angeles on Sunday night

Rihanna's coat had black velvet and leopard print panels running through it which had silk and embroidered details added on.

 

The Barbados beauty wore the extravagant number over a sexy black super-short playsuit and gold metallic sky-high stilettos.
The queen of accessorising wore a dramatic gold star necklace and wore her hair in a blunt bob style with a heavy and straight fringe.

Keeping her warm: The singer used the coat to cover up her skimpy playsuit which she wore underneath it

Working it: The star uploaded this sultry image to her Instagram account on Monday morning

Despite her eye-catching coat, the singer kept her make-up very dramatic and opted for incredibly dark berry lips and a slick of liquid eyeliner.
No doubt the star was keen to take her mind off recent events which saw her sued by an artist who claims her bondage-themed video for her single, S&M was based on his fashion photographs.
Rihanna's video, which has been watched by nearly 49 million people on YouTube, could be banned after New York based Philipp Paulus, 22, from Germany, claims she copied his work.

Stylish: The 25-year-old wore on-trend heavy berry lipstick and styled her hair into a blunt bob

Accessories queen: Rihanna wore a pretty gold star necklace with her outlandish ensemble

He argues that some scenes in the pop star's bondage-themed video were based on his fashion photography series 'Paperworld'.
In other legal news, Rihanna is suing her former accountant, claiming he advised her to make a string of bad financial decisions which lost her $9million in one year.
Rihanna claims she was 'effectively bankrupt' at the end of 2009 after advice from accountant Peter Gounis of Berdon LLP, according to new legal documents filed at Manhattan federal court.
Rihanna says in the lawsuit that she had $11million in cash in January 2009 but just $2million left at the end of the year - mainly because her accountant told her to buy a Beverly Hills mansion for $7.5million which turned out to be mouldy and leaking.

Favourite: The singer makes regular trips to the Italian eaterie in Los Angeles