by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
September 19, 2025
‘I wish to proceed the story, honoring the previous whereas shaping the longer term via my very own perspective.’
Jaden Smith will transfer to Paris to turn into the first-ever males’s inventive director for Christian Louboutin.
Maison Christian Louboutin made the announcement in a social media put up. The son of rapper/actor Will and actress Jada Pinkett-Smith will oversee the creation of 4 collections yearly.
“Merging my imaginative and prescient with Christian’s comes fairly naturally as a result of we see the world in a really related means. There’s a shared respect for inventive freedom, and I believe that’s why it really works,” mentioned Smith in a written assertion. “I wish to proceed the story, honoring the previous whereas shaping the longer term via my very own perspective. It isn’t only a title—it’s a inventive dwelling. Christian has given me a spot to discover, to study, and to create freely. His legacy is constructed on exhausting work and pleasure, and I wish to carry that ahead.”
The 2 males met in 2019 and fashioned a relationship. The conversations between the 2 led to admiration of one another’s visions, and now, because the inventive director, Smith will flex his inventive muscle for the favored trend model.
“Once I first met Jaden, I noticed in him a pure match for the Maison. His world is wealthy and multidimensional, his type and cultural sensibility are inspiring, and his curiosity and openness are outstanding. I felt that along with his inventive course, our males’s assortment would evolve in an thrilling and dynamic means. He looks like the right addition to our inventive crew, and I’m really trying ahead to having enjoyable working with him on our males’s collections,” Louboutin mentioned.
Jaden’s first assortment with the corporate will happen throughout Males’s Fall/Winter 2026 Paris Vogue Week in January 2026.
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