{"id":71661,"date":"2023-02-14T20:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=71661"},"modified":"2023-02-14T20:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:16:16","slug":"louis-vuitton-pharrell-williams-mens-creative-director","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/louis-vuitton-pharrell-williams-mens-creative-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Vuitton Names Pharrell Williams as New Men’s Creative Director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pharrell Williams launches his skin care range Humanrace, during a photo call at Selfridges in central London. Picture date: Friday November 25, 2022. (Photo by Kirsty O’Connor\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louis Vuitton<\/a> has just announced that Pharrell Williams<\/a> will take over the role as creative director of menswear, a position the late designer Virgil Abloh<\/a> held at the time of his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cLouis Vuitton is delighted to welcome Pharrell Williams as its new Men\u2019s Creative Director,\u201d the French fashion house confirmed in a statement. Williams\u2019s debut collection will take place next June during Men\u2019s Fashion Week in Paris.<\/p>\n

\u201cPharrell Williams is a visionary whose creative universes expand from music to art, and to fashion \u2013 establishing himself as a cultural global icon over the past twenty years,\u201d said the brand. \u201cThe way in which he breaks boundaries across the various worlds he explores, aligns with Louis Vuitton\u2019s status as a Cultural Maison, reinforcing its values of innovation, pioneer spirit, and entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pharrell Williams at BornxRaised & Union \u201cSadie Hawkins Paris\u201d in partnership with StockX at the Petit Palace, Paris, France on Jun 19 2019 (Vikram Valluri\/BFA.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An acclaimed record producer, musician, entrepreneur and overall fashion icon, this is hardly Williams\u2019 first rodeo in a design role. The \u201cHappy\u201d singer announced a collaboration with Tiffany & Co<\/a>. last January (which is also owned by Louis Vuitton parent company LVMH).<\/p>\n

He co-owns streetwear brand Human Made alongside Kenzo<\/a> creative director Nigo and is founder of streetwear labels Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream. A noted friend of Chanel<\/a>, Williams was known as a muse to the late Karl Lagerfeld<\/a>. He became Chanel\u2019s first male fashion ambassador in 2017 and even designed a collection for the Parisian maison in 2019.<\/p>\n

The musician ventured into skincare with the launch of his line Humanrace<\/a> in 2020. Williams is also set to reveal new designs at Moncler<\/a>\u2019s Genius activation during London Fashion Week next week.<\/p>\n

He collaborated with Louis Vuitton on various occasions in the past, including working with then-creative director Marc Jacobs on a line of sunglasses in 2007 which were later re-issued by Abloh<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n

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