In a profession stuffed with iconic moments, Pharrell Williams has added one more achievement to his intensive record of accomplishments. This time, he introduced alongside his good friend, collaborator and 24-time Grammy winner Jay-Z to assist have fun with a efficiency at his latest Louis Vuitton’s 2024 Males’s Spring-Summer season Vogue Present, the place he debuted his first assortment for the famed style home’s menswear line.
To have fun Pharrell’s new assortment, Jay-Z joined the “Joyful” singer on stage for a efficiency on the Pont Neuf in Paris. Along with performing a few of his personal tracks — together with the RIAA Diamond-certified “N—-s In Paris” and “F–kwithmeyouknowigotit” — Jay-Z and Pharrell delivered a medley of two of their largest collaborations: “I Simply Wanna Love You (Give It 2 Me)” and “Frontin.’” (In 2003, “Frontin’” climbed to a peak of No. 5 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. Three years prior, “I Simply Wanna Love You (Give It 2 Me)” peaked at No. 11.)
“Women and gents, the inventive director of LV on this constructing!” Jay-Z proclaims as he introduces Pharrell within the video Louis Vuitton shared to its YouTube web page on Sunday (June 25).
In February, Louis Vuitton introduced that Pharrell would succeed Virgil Abloh as the style home’s new males’s inventive director following the beloved designer’s demise in 2021. On June 20, the Academy Award-nominated multi-hyphenate formally debuted his beautiful new assortment. Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton debut drew a few of Hollywood’s largest stars together with Beyoncé, Zendaya, Rihanna, A$AP Rocky and Jay-Z. Rihanna has additionally modeled the road in a sequence of marketing campaign photographs.
Pharrell has earned 4 Sizzling 100 chart-toppers over the course of his profession, together with “Cash Maker” with Ludacris, and the 12-week chief “Blurred Traces” with Robin Thicke & T.I. Each of his solo studio albums — 2006’s In My Thoughts (No. 3) and 2014’s G I R L (No. 2) — have reached the highest 5 of the Billboard 200. Though Jay-Z hasn’t launched a solo studio album since 2017’s chart-topping 4:44, he rapped over a Pharrell manufacturing simply final 12 months because of his featured activate Pusha T’s “Neck & Wrist.”
Watch Louis Vuitton’s video of Pharrell and Jay-Z’s efficiency above.
