All the best outfits from Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ you can’t buy — and one you can

Who needs red-carpet arrivals and runway shows to showcase your high-fashion frocks when you’ve got a fashion show of one, courtesy of Beyoncé? That thought crossed my mind — more than once — while watching “Black Is King,� which debuted Friday on Disney+.

After a five-month fashion famine — canceled runway shows, postponed movie premieres and scuttled film festivals precipitated by the pandemic — Beyoncé, with the help of costume designer Zerina Akers and a cast of hundreds (I can’t recall the last time I saw an end credit for a wardrobe driver), served up less of a visual feast and more of a full-blown 90-minute, all-you-can-eat buffet that was part Fashion Week, part Met Gala and part Oscar-night arrivals all rolled into one.

It was a parade of beautiful, floral-festooned gowns, curve-hugging dresses and catsuits, money-print pajamas, towering headpieces, stunner statement jewelry and vibrant patterns and bold colors from the first frame to the last.

When you sit down to watch “Black Is King� (or, more than likely, when you circle back to watch it again), keep your eyes out for these can’t-miss fashion moments, which rank as some of our favorites.

Leopard-print Valentino

One of the most over-the-top outfits (in a very long list of over-the-top outfits) Ms. Knowles-Carter appears in is the Valentino Haute Couture leopard-print ensemble she wears while performing the song “Mood 4 Eva� on the hood of a leopard-spotted Rolls-Royce. Custom-made for her by Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, it consists of a jacquard leopard-spot cape and matching needle-lace jumpsuit embellished with paillettes and rhinestone embroidery.

Cow-print Burberry

The handiwork of Burberry’s chief creative officer, Riccardo Tisci, appears twice in “Black Is King,� once in the form of a graffiti-print outfit that might easily have slipped by you, and once in the form of a bold cow-print ensemble that you couldn’t have missed if you tried. The custom look paired a corset top with a matching miniskirt, both of which were complemented by a huge, horned headpiece (provenance unknown), that Bey wears while astride a horse with a similar butterscotch-brown-splotched hide. If this is what herd mentality looks like, I’m all for it.

The crescent moons of Marine Serre

The allover crescent moon motif is a mainstay of the Marine Serre label, but when Beyoncé and her cadre of dancers turn up in a spare warehouse setting clad in Marine Serre bodysuits for the song “Already,� it felt less like an identifying logo and more like a nod to otherworldly and celestial powers. The look was made all the more memorable after Adele posted a photo of herself to Instagram wearing a similarly patterned Marine Serre crescent-moon top and gesturing toward the onscreen queen. (Adele’s post read, “Thank you Queen for always making us all feel so loved through your art.�)

Floral froufrou from Mary Katrantzou and Erdem

Cool, curve-hugging catsuits aside, what really made “Black Is King� feel like a full-blown, runway-show-meets-red-carpet fashion happening was the multitude of gorgeous gowns that popped up along the way, each seemingly more colorful and voluminous than the one before it. Among them were a fuchsia tulle confection by Molly Goddard (called the Daria dress, it’s from the designer’s fall and winter 2019 runway collection) and a ruffled, multicolored, off-the-shoulder dress from the fall and winter 201`9 collection of Mary Katrantzou, both of which make an appearance during the song “Water.�

Another eye-catching exercise in volume and color came by way of an oversized floral-print Erdem gown (also a fall winter 2019 runway look) that Beyoncé wears in a tea-party-in-the-garden scene (in which her mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson, and singer Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child make cameos), and everyone seemed to get the ballgown memo for a scene from “Brown Skin Girl� that looked like something out of a debutante-ball-themed Vanity Fair cover shoot.

Money-print pajamas and more merchandise

Although most of the clothes that appeared onscreen in “Black Is King� are inaccessible to most wage-earning mortals (being custom-made or from several seasons ago), there was one look — a pair of wide-legged, money-print pajamas Beyoncé wears during “Mood 4 Eva� — that were within reach (albeit briefly) of anyone with $160 to spend.

Designed by Duckie Confetti, the consumer version of the belted jacket and generously cut trousers printed with an exploded $100-bill pattern were offered for pre-order through the official Shop Beyoncé website when the “Black Is King� visual album dropped, as of this writing just four days later, the entire run of sizes is listed as sold out. (The description accompanying the item online included the following: “Supporting Black-owned businesses is important to us at Shop Beyoncé. This is one of several exclusive items we’ve made available from these businesses.� Those other collaborative items — a $110 “Black Is King� nameplate necklace by Melanie Marie and a 260-piece, $70 puzzle by Timeless Goods — are also currently sold out.)

You can, however (at least for now), plunk down $55 to pre-order (for delivery in eight to nine weeks) a long-sleeve T-shirt bearing an image of Beyoncé wearing the Duckie Confetti jammies, which would be a totally meta workaround.

There’s an assortment of other merchandise referencing songs or scenes from “Black Is King� on offer too, including sleep masks ($25, glitter-printed with the word MOOD), an 18-by-24-inch poster ($20, featuring Beyoncé in the Burberry cow-print ensemble) and a $40 off-white (the color, not the brand) T-shirt featuring the star of the show wearing little more than stripes of black and teal green paint.

In case you’re curious what she’s wearing under that paint, it’s a La Perla nonwired triangle bra that costs $190 and is currently available online in four colors. Unfortunately, black and teal is not one of the options.