Paris Fashion Week
June 2023
Williams will showcase his first collection for the French luxury house in June during Men’s Fashion Week in Paris. The show will mark five years after Abloh’s celebrated debut collection for the brand, where the audience included: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, ASAP Rocky, Takashi Murakami, Travis Scott and more. More than 2,000 guests attended the event, held at the Palais Royal, including thousands of local students that Abloh had personally invited. In total, the show featured 56 men’s looks, including apparel, accessories and shoes.
Past Fashion Shows
EXPECTATIONS
Pharrell's Debut
Analysts and forecasters reacted to Pharrell Williams’ recent appointment as creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton without surprise. If anyone could fill the shoes of the multi-hyphenate late designer Virgil Abloh, it would be Williams.
“There is no doubt that Pharrell will likely make his unique impact based on his outsized style sensibilities,” says Hemant Kalbag, managing director, Alvarez & Marsal Consumer Retail Group. “But I don’t anticipate a fundamental directional change. That said, Pharrell will help keep LV relevant to the next generation of LV customers.”
PREDICTIONS
“Pharrell at the helm will continue to make it loud, exciting, and talked about, which is what sells the SLGs [small leather goods], bags and shoes,”
- Keefer
Fashion does need an element of hype, argues fashion critic Osama Chabbi, who points to watershed moments like Kim Jones’s Supreme collection, which highlighted a turning point for luxury-streetwear collaborations back in 2017. “I genuinely believe that a massive luxury establishment like Louis Vuitton does need an element of hype when it comes to its menswear appointment,” he says. “Pharrell Williams has had a significant impact on the larger scale of fashion. He influenced the way people dress in many ways today, hence why his appointment is full of cohesiveness in my eyes.”