PARIS - Hip-hop artist Pharrell Williams is in talks to take over as head of menswear for Louis Vuitton, media reports said on Tuesday (Feb 14). Williams would fill the spot left vacant since the death of Virgil Abloh from cancer in November 2021, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Le Figaro. They cited sources with knowledge...
Williams would fit perfectly with the label’s recent moves to attract a younger streetwear-focused audience.PARIS - Hip-hop artist Pharrell Williams is in talks to take over as head of menswear for Louis Vuitton, media reports said on Tuesday .
They cited sources with knowledge of the talks, but Louis Vuitton's parent company LVMH has yet to confirm the news. Louis Vuitton's sales have soared since the pandemic, with the company now worth more than US$20 billion - helping to turn the owner of its parent company LVMH, Bernard Arnault, into the world's richest person.
Williams, who came to fame in the 1990s as part of hip-hop group The Neptunes, was not often mentioned in the rumours around the succession, but would fit perfectly with the label's recent moves to attract a younger streetwear-focused audience.
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