Pharrell Williams named creative director for Louis Vuitton menswear

Louis Vuitton has chosen Pharrell Williams as its new artistic director for menswear. The musician’s first assortment will probably be revealed in June throughout Paris’ Males’s Vogue Week, the French luxurious trend model mentioned in a press release. 

Williams, a 13-time GRAMMY winner and 39-time nominee, additionally based and designs for trend manufacturers Billionaire Boys Membership and Ice Cream attire, in addition to different manufacturers. His music has additionally earned him Academy Award and Emmy nominations. 

Along with producing music, he additionally produces for movie and TV and earned a greatest image nomination on the 2016 Academy Awards for “Hidden Figures,” which he co produced. 

He’s additionally concerned in a number of different enterprise ventures, together with eating places, a resort and Humanrace, an organization that sells wellbeing merchandise like skincare. 

“Pharrell Williams is a visionary whose artistic universes increase from music, to artwork, and to trend – establishing himself as a cultural, world icon over the previous twenty years,” Louis Vuitton mentioned in a media launch. “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.”

Williams collaborated with Louis Vuitton in 2004 and 2008. 

He succeeds Virgil Abloh, who in 2018 grew to become the primary Black man to function inventive director at Louis Vuitton. Abloh, who additionally based his personal trend label, Off-White, died in 2021 following a personal battle with most cancers. He was 41. 

Williams has simply two posts on Instagram – his most up-to-date publish pronounces his new position as artistic director at Louis Vuitton. His solely different publish exhibits him standing in entrance of a statue honoring Abloh.