It’s a location that appears like a film set from traditional Westerns: For his third Louis Vuitton Males’s presentation, Pharrell Williams staged the French model’s Fall Winter 2024 runway present on the Jardin d’Acclimatation within the Bois de Boulogne, simply behind the style label’s headquarters.
In a present referred to as “Paris, Virginia” — Williams was born in Virginia — fashions playied the a part of cowboys parading in entrance of an enormous display screen the place the placing surroundings of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, these of Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico was projected. At one level, snow even fell on the company within the room.
Previewing the runway present throughout Paris Trend Week was a brief movie created by Bafic with Ron Husband — one of many world’s most influential cartoonists on the Walt Disney Animation Studios manufacturing group (The Lion King, The Little Mermaid) — filmed whereas drawing a sketch of a cowboy.
The style appears to be like that had been introduced resemble these of Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in Fred Zinnermann’s Excessive Midday or Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of {Dollars}, or extra lately, these of Kevin Costner in Yellowstone.
In specializing in the Wild West, the musician/designer reinvented the cowboy aesthetic, including the model’s cult and glam motifs such because the Damier checkerboard sample and the LV image, reinterpreted in a Buffalo Verify and Monogram Cowboy key.
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A mannequin walks the runway throughout the Louis Vuitton Menswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 present as a part of Paris Trend Week on January 16, 2024 in Paris, France.
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The style presentation alternated leather-based fits with fringes and gemstone appliqués, blanket coats in pure North American Native American fashion and jackets aged as in the event that they had been burned within the prairie solar, and denim shirts with lace embroidery.
All accompanied by the dwell efficiency by Native Voices of Resistance, a gaggle composed of singers from indigenous communities in North America, and 4 authentic songs composed for the event by Williams with the participation of Miley Cyrus and Mumford & Sons.
Additionally new for the French model is the partnership with Timberland, which unveiled footwear in three brand variations which might be certain to be snapped up by the model’s aficionados, beginning with LV Texan, the ankle boot created due to the unique experience of the Goodyear tire model. Parfleche blankets and “Dakota Flower” scarves, in addition to some “It” luggage, are made in collaboration with artists and artisans from Native American tribes.
Bradley Cooper, Venus Williams and Omar Sy at Louis Vuitton Photocall
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Within the entrance row, applauding Williams’ work, was a really elegantly dressed Bradley Cooper, ambassador of the style label. Different company had been Carey Mulligan, Lakeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Andrew Scott, supermodel Karlie Kloss, sports activities legends LeBron James and Venus Williams, soccer participant Marco Verratti and Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, each pillars of the Italian nationwide group.