Pharrell Williams kicked off Paris Men’s Fashion Week with the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2025 show held in the Jardin d’Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, behind the Vuitton Foundation. A giant stage inspired by the desert of Arizona or New Mexico gave way to what would end up being a repertoire of elegant and ornate costumes in pure American Western style.
For the soundtrack – one of the key aspects in Williams’ parades, as a great artist that he is – Native American drums resonated, that is, the songs of the native peoples of those distant lands. The collection began with a clear Texan aesthetic consisting of embroidered, wide-leg jeans and shirts with very marked collars and ornamented with turquoise stones in the shape of buttons.
As the show progressed, the classic western archetypes that are part of the collective universe were reinvented under the DNA of Louis Vuitton. Large coats that shine down to the feet, customized leather jackets adorned with Wild West drawings or suits with Pharell Williams’ star print, the pixelated checkerboard.
The hats and huge trunks with the LV monogram in different colors were also noticeable throughout the show.
Williams kept an ace up her sleeve and for the end of the show she saved what is probably one of her biggest hits of the season: a pair of Louis Vuitton Timberland boots. This 2023 the brand turned 50 years old, one of the possible reasons why the luxury house and the artist wanted to pay tribute to them.
For this collaboration, the French brand has presented three slip-on boots. Pharrell Williams did not want to revolutionize the aesthetics of Timberlands but rather give them a much more luxurious look. In fact, at first glance one of the models might look almost the same but you can see the brand’s famous monogram on the inside of the tongue. Another shows an engraving of the LV also running across the surface of another model.
For the moment the luxury house has not wanted to give more information about the future launch, nor the price of these. However, prices are expected to be around 2,000 euros, as was the case with the launch of the Dior x Air Jordan, whose resale price currently reaches 13,000 euros.
This is the third show for the designer, who assumed the creative direction of the brand’s men’s line last year. Pharrell Williams’ debut took place last June at the Pont Neuf in Paris, with a party at street level with performances by the designer himself and his great friend, Jay-Z. She then traveled to Hong Kong last November for his second show.
