Louis Vuitton Confirms Pharrell Williams Collaboration With Nigo on Fall Men’s Collection

PARIS – Pharrell Williams is reuniting together with his longtime collaborator Nigo for his fall menswear assortment for Louis Vuitton, as a result of be unveiled in Paris on Tuesday night.

Vuitton’s artistic director of menswear had been dropping hints in regards to the collaboration on his social media accounts in latest days, and on Tuesday morning, the model confirmed the tie-up with a publish on Instagram. 

Williams and Nigo are seen by way of a fish eye lens mendacity on the ground, surrounded by circles made of baggage, colourful varsity jackets and sneakers, to the sound of The Weeknd and Playboi Carti’s monitor “Timeless.”

The pair have a longstanding friendship, having co-founded the streetwear labels Billionaire Boys Membership and Icecream in 2003. Each have been instrumental helps to popularize streetwear’s visibility in excessive style.

The Louis Vuitton present is because of be livestreamed at 8 p.m. native time. The duo are additionally as a result of co-host a dinner on Wednesday to have fun the newest sale organized by Joopiter, the public sale platform that Williams launched in 2022.

A serial style entrepreneur and pioneering determine on the streetwear scene, Nigo was the founding father of A Bathing Ape, often called Bape, with which he’s now not related.

Since 2021, the Japanese designer, DJ, document producer and entrepreneur has been the artistic director at Kenzo, which like Vuitton is owned by luxurious conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.

Nigo has additionally labored for Uniqlo as artistic director for its UT vary and helms a model referred to as Human Made, which final yr named Williams as an adviser. The “Joyful” singer can also be an investor within the label.  

Nigo beforehand collaborated with Louis Vuitton underneath its late menswear inventive director Virgil Abloh on a capsule assortment launched in 2020.