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Pharrell Teases His Latest Chanel Collaboration |
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Pharrell Williams on Fashion and Feminism, GQ France |
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| In the latest issue of GQ France, Pharrell Williams dives deep into fashion and feminism while providing a first look at his upcoming collaboration with Chanel. |
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| The Chanel x Pharrell pieces seen in the article include green and blue “Pharrell” iterations of Chanel’s signature round sunglasses; a white sweatshirt with “Chanel Pharrell” in red on the chest; a white shirt; a yellow hoodie with whimsical Chanel branding; a soft, green tote bag; a blue side bag possibly constructed from suede, with a quilted panel; and finally, custom Chanel x Pharrell sneakers. |
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| In the “24 Hours with Pharrell” video above, Pharrell discusses his style inspiration, as well as what it was like creating the collection alongside Karl Lagerfeld. Pharrell and Chanel have been working together for a while now – the interview was filmed the day after he walked the Chanel Métiers d’Arts show back in December, when Lagerfeld was still with us. |
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| Of his style, Pharrell says, “I don’t have a style as much as I have tendencies. I find a silhouette that I like, that I’m inspired by… and that becomes my look for like, 6 to 8 months… I’m a creature of habit, and I wear seemingly the same shit… until I’m inspired by something else and then I completely get rid of everything else.” |
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Behind CHANEL’s Chic, Discrete, and Very CHANEL Move Into Menswear |
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CHANEL - PHARRELL |
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| Chanel announced its first capsule collection in the brand’s luxurious century-long history, made in collaboration with longtime fan-of-the-house Pharrell Williams. (Williams had teased the collection in a performance at the brand’s reprise Cruise show last October.) Williams says it’s gender fluid, and it includes hoodies, graffitied sneakers (“Women will save the world,” they read), very now shield sunglasses, loafers, bucket hats, jewelry and more in what the house calls “the colors of optimism.” All of it reads “CHANEL - PHARRELL,” as if these are now the two genders. But forgive us a moment
of old-fashioned thinking: It’s all great stuff for guys, whether you’re in Miami or just running errands. |
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| "Women will save the world" |
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| Nonetheless—or perhaps...inevitably, depending on how much you believe in the Chanel mythos—Chanel has emerged as a coveted name in menswear in the past few years, particularly in hip-hop. Young Thug, Future, Gunna, and
Lil Uzi Vert are fans. But they don’t get it by hunting through the racks like a real housewife, nor do they
“Contact An Advisor,” as the brand’s e-commerce-free website suggests. For many, particularly Thugga and Future, the Chanel plug is Bobby Wesley. Wesley is regularly in contact with boutiques that have accounts with Chanel—Jeffrey, the New York boutique with an Atlanta outpost, is a go-to—as well as the standalone Chanel stores. |
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| Chanel has emerged as a coveted name in menswear |
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| Why are these men drawn to Chanel? “Because it’s rare,” Wesley says. “No one else is wearing it.” And that’s how rappers want to get dressed right now: “Alright, so everybody’s wearing this, so let me find something that no one else is wearing,” Wesley says. The fact that Chanel is known as a womenswear brand adds another layer of rarity: “When you have a brand like Chanel, that is so prominent, that is a big stamp in fashion—not just men’s, but womenswear—and a man can pull it off? I mean, that’s like the ultimate prize. Because every other guy is gonna want that piece that you’re wearing, but they can’t find it because it’s not in their size.” |
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| Why are these men drawn to Chanel? “Because it’s rare,” |
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| Chanel has also found male fans outside of the well-styled world of hip-hop. The brand’s couture shows are well-attended by young male customers who pair a Chanel tweed jacket—very fitted—with high-heeled Tabi boots, one of the brand’s famous 2.55 bags worn clout pack-style, and fistfulls of costume jewelry. (Marc Jacobs, a true fashion fanatic, demonstrated the look perfectly on Instagram last July.) It all makes a certain kind of sense: most of Coco Chanel’s designs were borrowed from menswear, after all. “Guys are wearing more accessories,” Wesley says, and Chanel is clearly recognizing that. “The bags, the fanny packs, the chains. I actually just bought one of my clients a
Chanel belt—the chains that say ‘Chanel’—[and] my client is gonna wear it as a crossbody…. They’re improvising, and they’re wearing it in other ways.” |
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| Chanel has found male fans outside of the well-styled world of hip-hop |
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| Williams’s new capsule more formally taps into this energy, encouraging guys beyond the couture client and hip-hop bases to get a little more experimental. But while men’s clothing is big moolah and smart branding in the world of retail right now, this isn’t your garden-variety menswear capsule. The paucity of available merchandise, and the requisite flirtation with femininity, seems somehow just right for the brand, which has always been about guarding everything, down to its founder’s birthdate, like a state secret. |
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| So perhaps we’re headed towards a future of double-C’s, with men carrying us there in women’s builts. And naturally (inevitably!), the two people I saw in Chanel’s Soho boutique trying on the men’s shoes were women. |
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| Read more at: Behind CHANEL’s Chic, Discrete, and Very CHANEL Move Into Menswear |
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Falling for Pharrell |
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| As dusk begins to paint a warm summer day in pinks and oranges, Pharrell Williams arrives at a studio in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley whose atmosphere seems entirely consistent with the mystical calm of a man who has lately seemed to float into public appearances on a lotus flower. In a courtyard behind a pair of tall, ivy-framed wooden doors, a mossy fountain babbles and blue jacaranda blossoms pool on the flagstones. Just inside the studio itself, beneath a plaque certifying the multiplatinum status of Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad, a celadon Buddha presides over a couple of music technicians watching a football game and eating M&Ms. One of them uses his knees to squeeze a pillow embroidered with the words "You Have Free Will." Down the hall, perfectly insulated, Snoop Dogg toys with rhythms for a new track. |
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| "You Have Free Will." |
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| It's tempting to regard all this as a deft obfuscation, a clever way to keep his personal life out of view. And yet Pharrell glimmers with something like a sense of enlightenment. "It took me a minute to find my purpose," he says. "I knew something was missing, and then I realized, OK, you're able to make music; now you have to inject purpose. I want to make music with something extra to it—a holistic property. I want to make it feel good. I'm not the only one doing this. Kendrick Lamar's music feels amazing. Adele's music feels amazing. Alicia [Keys]'s new album feels amazing. The distinction between sounding amazing and feeling amazing—that's the thing. People, I think, are looking for a feeling." |
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| "It took me a minute to find my purpose," |
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| Pharrell concedes that fatherhood—he and Helen have a five-year-old son, Rocket—may have softened the sharp edges. |
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| Music dominates Pharrell's memories of Virginia Beach, Virginia |
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| Music dominates Pharrell's memories of Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he grew up. His mother, Carolyn, a schoolteacher, and his father, Pharaoh, a handyman, listened to a lot of Earth, Wind & Fire and the Spinners. His aunt, who lived nearby, favored the psychedelic soul of Parliament and the 5th Dimension. Later, when his family moved to the suburbs, he heard Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. "Music was ubiquitous," he recalls. "It was so thick, you could cut it in the air. The songs with the crazy chord changes, which I would always associate with certain colors, were the ones that would keep my attention." Pharrell bought records for 10 cents at local thrift stores, unaware that he was on a strict diet of classics. He used to take a whisk from the kitchen, line up the pillows on the sofa and pretend he was a drummer. When he was 12, his grandmother bought him a snare drum and suggested he take lessons. |
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| Read more at: Falling for Pharrell |
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How Pharrell Williams Stays Happy |
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| He developed quickly as a musician |
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| He developed quickly as a musician, and in his school's marching band he met a talented Filipino-American saxophone player named Chad Hugo. Both he and Hugo were tapped to participate in a summer program for gifted musicians, where they played in a jazz band together. "From there," Pharrell says, "we started experimenting with trying to make our own tracks, using these cheap Casio keyboards and tape recorders, whatever we could get our hands on. It was always gratifying to hear it back. Still, to this day, when you make something and it feels good, it's an endorphin release." Pharrell and Chad called themselves the Neptunes. |
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| It's hip-hop, it's jazz, it's meditative |
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| He remembers hearing A Tribe Called Quest's "Bonita Applebum," off the band's 1990 debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, around that time. "That song changed me," Pharrell explains. "It was like the whole song was the sweet spot of a song, which I didn't know at the time was called a bridge. It's the dreamiest, trancy-est record ever. It's hip-hop, it's jazz, it's meditative, it's like a Jeff Koons sculpture in the sense that it's alchemical. It turns nothing into something." |
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| Teddy Riley discovered the Neptunes at a high school talent show |
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| It happened that Teddy Riley, the hip-hop producer who pioneered the style known as New Jack Swing, had a studio next door to Princess Anne High School, where Pharrell was a student. Riley discovered the Neptunes at a high school talent show and signed them upon graduation. They soon established themselves as a production duo, first for hip-hop acts like Noreaga and Busta Rhymes, and then, as their reputation grew, for pop stars such as Britney Spears, whose "I'm a Slave 4 U" became their first worldwide hit, in 2001. Others followed, and by the summer of 2003, according to one survey, more than 40 percent of all songs played on American radio were Neptunes productions. |
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| I think when I put out my first solo album, the music was just eclipsed by all the braggadocio," he says. "That was me feeling like I had to be like Jay or Puff. I didn't realize that that was their story—the story of the struggle to will your way out of where you're from, to cash in on that, first for yourself, then for other people. But I didn't see that. All I saw was the planes, the cars, the girls—the ornaments but not the tree they were hanging on. I was making music with and for Jay-Z and Puff, but I was a weirdo in that world. We had A Tribe Called Quest, we had the Fugees, but it seemed like those other guys were running things. |
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| "These are people," Pharrell explains, "who had epiphanies and then did something with them |
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| Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçon's founder and designer, is one of Pharrell's idols, and she inhabits a pantheon that includes Koons, Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, Takashi Murakami and Stevie Wonder—artists united by a rigorous utopianism, if little else. "These are people," Pharrell explains, "who had epiphanies and then did something with them. As I see it, you can live two ways. You can live life the way you always imagined it would play out, or you can try to make the thing you dream of making. If you choose the second, get ready for an amazing ride. That's the ride I'm on. |
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| Read more at: How Pharrell Williams Stays Happy |
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Rocket Ayer Williams |
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Pharrell's Son, Rocket Ayer Williams, Is Already the Coolest Kid In Hollywood |
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| There are plenty of celebrities who have kids who look just like them—it is nearly impossible to tell Reese Witherspoon and Ava Phillippe apart, and John Legend basically has two little clones of himself running around his house. |
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| Pharrell Williams is practically twinning with his son Rocket Ayer Williams |
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| And speaking of clones, it has become apparent that Pharrell Williams is practically twinning with his son Rocket Ayer Williams—the 9-year-old child he has with his wife Helen Lasichanh. The couple also welcomed triplets in January 2017, the names of whom remain secret for now. Not long ago, the little scion was just a curly-headed blond baby, but now, he's looking and dressing just like his very stylish and talented dad (and his mom, too), according to a rare photo shared by Pharrell via Instagram on Wednesday. His name, his style, and his cultural impact at just nine years
old all explain why Rocket Ayer Williams is set to be one of the coolest kids in Hollywood and beyond. |
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| why Rocket is set to be one of the coolest kids in Hollywood and beyond |
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| First, no one can be cooler than someone with the name Rocket, an appellation that was reportedly given to him to honor four of his father's favorite musicians. In 2013, during Pharrell's extra-large hat phase, the musician opened up to Oprah Winfrey about his decision to give his son an intergalactic name. "In the same way that the Indians name their children behind a force or an animal, or an element, we named him after a manmade machine that was meant to go up, meant to ascend," he said. "And metaphorically it was because of Stevie Wonder's 'Rocket Love,' Elton John's 'Rocket Man,' and Herbie Hancock's 'Rocket.' All of my favorite musicians," he went on. "His middle name is not Man, it's Ayer, after Roy Ayers," the jazz-funk icon who rose to fame in the 1970s. |
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| First, no one can be cooler than someone with the name Rocket |
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| Being named after four critically acclaimed musicians, and being born from a ten-time Grammy winner would add a lot of pressure on anyone growing into their own, but Rocket already looks like he's going to be cool enough to handle it all. Ever since he was a tot, Rocket has been dressing like a fresh prince, and now he seems to be adopting some of his dad's eclectic style, as evidenced by the flat-brim hat, camouflage t-shirt, and bomber jacket combo he wore during a fashion show. Not only does Rocket look like a miniature clone of his father, but he recently held the distinct honor of sitting in the front row at the Chanel Cruise 2018/19 Replica Show in Bangkok, alongside A-list
attendees such as Tilda Swinton and Lily-Rose Depp. On top of that, Rocket also had time for a chic outfit change before and after the show. He's not even ten years old and he's already a fixture of the front row. |
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| named after four critically acclaimed musicians |
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| In addition to achieving high praise for his intellect from his multi-hyphenate dad at the tender age of five, Rocket also inspired a Despicable Me track written by his dad, called "Rocket Theme," and how many kids can say that they have sparked a song that was featured in one of the most lucrative animated franchises at the box office? With a name like Rocket, there's no doubt that this child will soar. |
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| since he was a tot, Rocket has been dressing like a fresh prince |
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| Read more at: Pharrell's Son, Rocket Ayer Williams, Is Already the Coolest Kid In Hollywood |
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Pharrell Williams’s Surprise Blonde Moment |
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Why We Love Pharrell Williams’s Surprise Blonde Moment at the Grammys Tonight |
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How Pharrell stays looking so ridiculously young |
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| Let's face it: Pharrell Williams does not look his age. |
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| In fact, we think he looks more like 34 than 44 (he'll be 45 next April). So just how does the singer/producer/songwriter keep his face as "Happy" as his music? |
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| As he revealed in an interview with Dazed in late August, it comes down to two key things: |
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| "I exfoliate like a madman," he explained. "When you exfoliate and you drink a lot of water, that does good for you." |
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| Looking fashionable (or fashionably quirky — we can't forget his giant Grammys hat or Oscars red carpet shorts) also helps, we're sure. Being a true individual, he said, was important. |
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| "It's indicative of who you are and what you're feeling," he said. "Specifically, the way I look at it, it's when I get up in the morning, it's how I feel, it's where I'm going, and what the weather's going to be like." |
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| He added, "That kind of informs me of what it is that I'm wearing. When people are like, 'I don't really have any style, I don't dress up,' you kind of are. That's what your clothes are saying." |
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| Still, Williams may not be able to hold his youthful looks much longer: he became a daddy of triplets with wife Helen Lasichanh in January. |
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| "It's a full-on assembly line," he told Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show" in June. "They harmonize when they cry ... Chain reaction is a real thing at our house. It's a real thing. One cries, two cries, then three cries." |
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| And that's the kind of thing that may cut into his exfoliation time! |
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| Read more at: How Pharrell stays looking so ridiculously young |
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