Regardless of the well-known Louis Vuitton “LV” monogram turning 130 this yr, there was barely a hint of it on Pharrell Williams’ newest runway. As a substitute, attendees had been ushered into an immersive Fall/Winter 2026 menswear presentation that was equal elements inside design fantasy and high-fashion spectacle. Oh, and it got here with a brand new track from Quavo.
The primary day of menswear reveals throughout Paris Trend Week closed on Tuesday, Jan. 20, with the 52-year-old’s newest star-studded exhibiting because the legendary vogue home’s artistic director of menswear, and he introduced the home down, actually.
The set featured an enormous fashionable glass home with a smooth, light-brown picket inside and cutting-edge design particulars, nestled in a sprawling inexperienced backyard crammed with wildflowers. The house was absolutely staged, full with a bed room, lavatory, kitchen, and lounge crammed with customized décor and furnishings. Above all of it, a choir wearing darkish robes emblazoned with the LV emblem carried out from balconies overlooking a crowd that included SZA, Usher, Future, Kai Cenat, Skepta, Tyriq Withers, and extra. The event additionally introduced the musician and designer’s spouse, Helen Lasichanh, and their 4 kids out for a uncommon sighting.
Because the present started with chook sounds and a mild piano, fashions made their method alongside a winding runway that led into the yard earlier than drifting by way of the house itself, nonetheless absolutely seen by way of floor-to-ceiling glass. The seems to be weaving by way of the house had been anchored in luxurious fundamentals, a wash of beige, brown, and comfortable greys, punctuated by pops of tomato crimson, pink, blue, and inexperienced.
Understated beige parkas and wool coats adopted crimson leather-based bomber jackets, together with pale button-downs that, regardless of a delicate sparkle, in any other case learn clear and traditional, all gliding by because the music regularly constructed. Williams continued his penchant for playfully reimagining the model’s most iconic items, together with an Artwork Nouveau-inspired Louis Vuitton trunk rendered in stained-glass type. Backpacks, totes, baggage, and hooded jackets bearing the brand had been peppered all through.
The music, a mixture of atmospheric, vibey soundscapes and bass-heavy R&B and hip-hop, was its personal sort of deal with. John Legend was available to carry out “Pray For Ya,” together with an unreleased monitor by A$AP Rocky, “Disturbing the P.” Jackson Wang debuted a monitor known as “Intercourse God” that includes Pusha T, and Quavo premiered a brand new track, “Hit-A-Lik,” all earlier than the present’s finale, when Williams walked the runway solo wearing khaki-colored flared pants with a buttery beige leather-based bomber, baseball cap, and a brown LV monogram fanny pack. He ultimately turned to greet his A-list entrance row earlier than he saluted the choir and left.
“An embodiment of putting up with expression,” started the caption of a joint publish from the model and Williams on Instagram. “Pharrell introduced a set of lasting engineering and significant craftsmanship — evoking the sartorial basis of Louis Vuitton.”
