Rihanna didn’t star in the movie but was the center of attention at the premiere of “Inglourious Basterds” in London last night when she turned up looking like a New Romantic with a hair-raising coif.

The singer, 21, fresh off her Mohegan-inspired Mohawk haircut was rocking a Goth eighties ensemble in a black jumpsuit, lace gloves, black shoe boots and several pearl necklaces. She completed her look with her sky high puff / faux-hawk   hovering a good three inches above her forehead. The coif even managed to maintain its shape through the night, which included a late dinner at Cipriani and then a pop-in to the films after party at Shoreditch House.

Rihanna got people talking but it was the film’s star, Diane Kruger, who stole the show in a sexy black strapless Balmain mini-dress with metal chain belt and studded Christian Louboutin heels. The model-turned-actress’s teeny dress showed off her leggy limbs and certainly caught the attention of the film’s director Quentin Tarantino.

Notably absent at the premiere was the film’s leading man Brad Pitt, who is currently in Los Angeles with his six children while partner Angelina Jolie is in Iraq. But hundreds of die-hard Tarantino fans queued outside the Odeon Leicester Square to see the maverick launch his first film in two years. Joining Quentin and Diane on the red carpet were co-stars Laurence Bender and Christoph Waltz.

The film – inspired by 1978 Italian war movie “Inglorious Bastards” – follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into France to get revenge on the Nazi occupiers. Brad plays Aldo the Apache, the leader of the eight-man team, with Austrian actor Christoph playing the sinister Jew Hunter, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in May.