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Pharrell Williams feels he's "collaborating in spirit" with Virgil Abloh. The iconic fashion designer died from cancer in November 2021, aged 41 - but Pharrell continues to feel his influence in his new role as the creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton. Pharrell, 50, told GQ magazine's September issue: "It’s like we’re collaborating in spirit." The music star is determined to continue Virgil's legacy at Louis Vuitton, including developing the brand's relationship to skateboarding. He said: "I’ll always pay homage to him." Pharrell's ultimate ambition is to "shake the tree" at Louis Vu...
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Pharrell Williams has described his Louis Vuitton debut as “love at first sight”. The 50-year-old music star was appointed as the new Men’s Creative Director in February and his first collection is set to be revealed during the Men’s Fashion Week in Paris. The ‘Happy’ singer recently launched his first campaign as creative director, which features a pregnant Rihanna, and has promised his spring 2024 collection, which will be showcased on Tuesday (20.06.23) night on the Pont Neuf bridge in the French capital, will be a “crazy show”. Speaking to WWD, he said: “It’s like love at first sight. “LV ...
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Pharrell Williams has been appointed the creative director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear. The ‘Happy’ hitmaker is taking the reins at the French fashion house after the death of its former designer Virgil Abloh died aged 41 in November 2021 following his cancer diagnosis. Louis Vuitton labelled the 49-year-old music producer - who has worked with many other high-end fashion brands like Chanel, Tiffany + Co and Kenzo - a “visionary whose creative universes expand from music to art, and to fashion. The way in which he breaks boundaries across the various worlds he explores aligns with Louis Vuitto...
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Virgil Abloh's wife Shannon was "happy" to be "the stable partner" in their relationship. The late Louis Vuitton designer's widow - who has daughter Lowe, nine, and son Grey, six, with her husband - has reflected on their life together a year after his tragic death aged 41 in November 2021 after being diagnosed with cardiac angiosarcoma. Speaking to the New York Times, she said keeping their home life out of the spotlight was "never a thing that we discussed". She added: "It was just the way our relationship worked. We knew we wanted to build this close family, and we needed someone to be the ...
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Kid Cudi is happy that he got to tell Virgil Abloh how much he meant to him before he died. The 38-year-old rapper had been close friends with the fashion designer for years before his death in November 2021 following a secret battle with the cancer cardiac angiosarcoma and Kid explained that while he is still grieving, he is happy that he managed to speak Virgil, 41, the day before he died. He told Esquire: "I’m happy I had contact with him, that it wasn’t months since I’d talked to him, and then this happened. Then maybe I’d be destroyed. Over the months, I found peace with it because I got ...
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Kylie Jenner "didn't care" what people thought of her Met Gala outfit. The 24-year-old beauty mogul only attended the annual fashion fundraiser in New York at the weekend because she wanted to honour late fashion designer friend, Virgil Abloh. The 'Kardashians' star wore a bridal-esque white gown by Virgil's Off-White label, but drew attention by pairing it with a backwards baseball hat and veil, and many didn't feel that it fitted the gala's theme of 'Gilded Glamour'. In a behind-the-scenes clip on her YouTube channel, Kylie said: "I wanted to do something big this year. Every year I've worn ...
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Virgil Abloh designed a Louis Vuitton snowboard case for Shaun White. The Olympic champion has hailed the late fashion icon - who passed away in November, aged 41, following a private battle with cancer - as “an incredibly nice guy” and “enthusiastic about life” while revealing that the Louis Vuitton menswear creative director and Off-White founder made him a bespoke LV case for the Beijing Winter Olympics before his death. The 35-year-old snowboarder told Vanity Fair: “I’d heard that he snowboarded, but I didn’t know that he was such a big fan of it. Virgil was an incredibly nice guy, just en...
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Benji B says the “genius” of Virgil Abloh inspired the soundtrack to his last ever Louis Vuitton show. The BBC Radio 1 DJ and long-time collaborator of the late creative director - who passed away in November following a private cancer diagnosis, aged 41 - reflected on using Virgil's memory and wishes to create the music for 'Louis' Dreamhouse' at Paris Fashion Week. The 42-year-old music producer told i-D: “The genius of V is the fact that all of these thoughts that he empowered us to have just manifested into reality.” Benji - who worked with Tyler the Creator, Lupe Fiasco and others on the ...
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Virgil Abloh’s final collection for Louis Vuitton debuted at Paris Fashion Week. The brand’s menswear creative director - who died, aged 41, in November last year after being diagnosed with cancer - centred the array of tear-stained garments around the theme of ‘Dreamhouse’, which included angels and breakdancing while challenging gender stereotypes, and the range was shown posthumously on Thursday (20.01.22). In the show’s notes, Virgil was quoted as saying: “I don’t believe in gender, I believe in design." The show - which was titled ‘Louis Dreamhouse’ - was held in a renovated 19th century ...
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Sotheby’s is auctioning off 200 pairs of Louis Vuitton x Nike trainers designed by the late Virgil Abloh. Proceeds from the ‘The Louis Vuitton and Nike Air Force One by Virgil Abloh’ auction in New York will benefit the Virgil Abloh “Post Modern” Scholarship Fund set up by the menswear creative director - who died, aged 41, in November after being diagnosed with cancer - to support Black students and students with African heritage. The sale - which features 200 shoes and will run from January 26 to February 9 on the auction house’s website - will be the first drop of sneakers designed by Virgi...
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