American music producer and fashionista, Pharrell Williams has been named the creative director in the menswear department at Louis Vuitton.
His appointment is coming three years after the passing of Virgil Abloh.
Louis Vuitton confirmed the news, saying that Williams’ first collection will be shown at Men’s Fashion Week in Paris in June.
The job has been vacant since Abloh‘s unexpected death at age 41 in November 2021.
Abloh, who took on the role in 2018, did not reveal publicly that he had been privately living with cancer during much of his tenure with Louis Vuitton.
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In a statement, Pietro Beccari, Louis Vuitton’s chairman and CEO, said that he was “glad to welcome Pharrell back home” Williams previously worked with Louis Vuitton in 2008, collaborating on lines of sunglasses and jewelry.
Beccari continued, “His creative vision beyond fashion will undoubtedly lead Louis Vuitton towards a new and very exciting chapter”
Equally, Pharrell Lanscilo Williams is an American record producer, rapper, singer, songwriter, and fashion designer. Alongside close colleague Chad Hugo, he formed the hip hop and R&B production duo the Neptunes in the early 1990s, with whom he has produced songs for various recording artists.
