Pharrell Williams and trend have all the time gone hand-in-hand. On Tuesday, Louis Vuitton introduced that the producer-musician extraordinaire will tackle the function of inventive director for the posh trend model’s menswear line. His first assortment for LV will likely be launched throughout Males’s Trend Week in Paris subsequent June.
“Pharrell Williams is a visionary whose inventive universes increase from music to artwork, and to trend – establishing himself as a cultural world icon over the previous twenty years,” Vuitton wrote in an announcement. “The best way wherein he breaks boundaries throughout the assorted worlds he explores, aligns with Louis Vuitton’s standing as a Cultural Maison, reinforcing its values of innovation, pioneer spirit, and entrepreneurship.”
Pharrell follows within the footsteps of Virgil Abloh, who served because the creative director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear assortment from 2018 till his loss of life in 2021 resulting from cardiac angiosarcoma. Abloh, a beloved clothes designer, was the primary Black American to be appointed to the function.
Abloh and Pharrell had a longstanding relationship, and in a 2017 interview, Abloh advised the Wall Road Journal that Pharrell could be one of many 5 individuals he’d need to go to dinner with. After Abloh’s loss of life, Pharrell tweeted, “My coronary heart is damaged. Virgil you had been a form, beneficiant, considerate inventive genius.Your work as a human and your work as a religious being will stay without end.”
Again in 2008, Pharrel co-designed jewellery for the model alongside then-creative director Marc Jacobs, together with some sun shades. On the time, he advised the Related Press, “I simply realized so much. I realized so much being right here. Vuitton for me is a college.”
“I’m glad to welcome Pharrell again residence, after our collaborations in 2004 and 2008 for Louis Vuitton, as our new Males’s Inventive Director,” Louis Vuitton CEO Pietro Beccari mentioned in an announcement. “His inventive imaginative and prescient past trend will undoubtedly lead Louis Vuitton in the direction of a brand new and really thrilling chapter.”
Pharrell has lengthy been a trend image and was awarded the Trend Icon Award from the Council of Trend Designers of America again in 2015: “Nobody has higher type than the on a regular basis American individuals. Why? As a result of they’re the true factor, and so they stay it every single day. I might by no means be as cool as them however I’m pleased to take notes.”