Pharrell Williams funks up his first offering as creative director for Louis Vuitton at Paris fashion week

Models present creations by designer Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2024 collection on the Pont Neuf bridge during Men's Fashion Week in Paris, France, June 20, 2023. In an early interview with Vibe in 2004, Pharrell said, "I love the whole process—from going out and finding the inspiration, picking a colour palette, designing it, and then seeing people wear it."

A file photo of Pharrell Williams (left) and Nigo at the Sanderson Hotel, London. Pharrell's friendship with Japanese streetwear designer Nigo and their common interests in skater and pop culture, Jap streetwear, space travel and hip-hop resulted in the launch of their label Billionaire Boys Club in 2003 and a skate-centric footwear line called Ice Cream. In 2006, Pharrell gave BAPE's signature "Road Sta" sneaker a makeover, with three colour variants and a comic-stylized face of himself on its heel. To this day, it's a collectable and an example of the impact and legacy of BBC in popularising streetwear on the high fashion scene.

In 2004, Pharrell made the "Millionaire" sunglasses for Louis Vuitton, his first collaboration with a major haute couture house under then creative director Marc Jacobs. Years later, Virgil Abloh, LV's first Black creative director, brought back the Millionaire sunglasses from the archives for his Louis Vuitton debut, labelling them as '1.1 Millionaires'.

In a vintage hat, Pharrell Williams celebrates his Oscar-nominated single, "Happy", with Sean Penn and Charlize Theron on February 27, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. Pharrell kicked off 2014 with a much meme'd appearance, wearing a vintage Vivienne Westwood buffalo-styled hat at the Grammys, singing Despicable Me 2 hit "Happy" to a grooving celeb audience.

Pharrell Williams's shoe detail at the 23rd Annual Hollywood Film Awards on November 03, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California. Since 2014, Pharrell has released numerous sneaker models in his partnership with Adidas, which are proven hits, like The NMD x Human Race collab, the Human Race x NMD x Chanel limited edition sneakers and the Stan Smith makeovers. In 2016, Pharrell launched Human Race as a unisex apparel, skin care and sneaker line that provides high-quality basic streetwear.

Pharrell Williams walks the runway during the "Chanel Collection des Metiers d'Art 2016/17: Paris Cosmopolite" show on December 6, 2016, in Paris, France. In 2015, Pharrell became the first man featured in a major Chanel campaign. Later, he was the face of campaigns for the Gabrielle bag. He even created a unisex capsule collection in 2019 called "Chanel Pharrell," featuring apparel and accessories inspired by his personal style.

Pharrell's arguably greatest collaborations have been with the watchmaker Richard Mille. In 2019, a self-confessed space nerd, Pharrell, collaborated with Richard Mille on a watch called the RM 52-05, featuring an astronaut on the dial. Limited to just 30 pieces, this watch, set in red and white gold with diamonds and titanium, retails for $969,000.

An event at the American Museum of Natural History to announce "RAW for the Oceans", a long-term collaboration between Bionic Yarn and G-Star turning ocean plastic into Denim, curated by Pharrell Williams, on February 8, 2014, in New York City. Pharrell's keen engagement with sustainability related to fashion isn't a token. He co-founded Bionic Yarn in 2010, a material engineering company which makes fibre derived from recycled plastic bottles found in the ocean. A lot of his clothing collaborations use the yarn.

Pharrell Williams in Tiffany's antique diamond-encrusted spectacles at the 65th Grammy Awards on February 05, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. In 2022, Pharrell unveiled a new set of sunglasses called 'Watchers' with Tiffany and Co. They were called out for copying an antique emerald pair of diamond-encrusted spectacles from the Mughal era. Pharrell's retorted that all creativity is inspired and influenced; otherwise, every creation could be litigious.