Pharrell Williams’s first Louis Vuitton present actually lived as much as the hype. JAY-Z and a gospel choir carried out; fashions walked over the oldest bridge in Paris; a pregnant Rihanna watched from the entrance row alongside Beyoncé, Zendaya, Kim Kardashian, and extra A-list attendees; and Williams wore a pair of iced-out sun shades value greater than my whole life financial savings and present belongings mixed. All in a day’s work.
On June 20, Williams made his debut as Louis Vuitton’s menswear artistic director throughout Paris Style Week, and he pulled out all of the stops along with his look. The singer-turned-designer selected a go well with bearing the gathering’s pixelated “Damoflage” print, an identical hat, and his newest pair of over-the-top sun shades. Customized-designed by Tiffany & Co., the gold shades characteristic tiny egg-shaped lenses and are encrusted with greater than 80 (!) baguette and spherical diamonds totaling at greater than 20 carats. (That is like doubling Kourtney Kardashian’s huge engagement ring and dicing up the diamonds, for reference.)
Sun shades that flashy include fairly the hefty price ticket. Maxwell Stone, a diamond knowledgeable at UK-based jeweler Steven Stone, advised POPSUGAR that he estimates they’re value round $100,000. That is greater than the annual lease my roommates and I pay for our three-bedroom Brooklyn house. That is like two years of tuition at Harvard. That is greater than . . . properly, you get the image.
This is not the primary time Williams has stepped out in extravagant eyewear. In actual fact, he is been sporting comparable customized Tiffany & Co. sun shades for greater than a 12 months, first exhibiting them off at Kenzo’s Paris Style Week present in January 2022 then bringing them out on the 2023 Grammys pink carpet. That individual pair was embellished with each spherical diamonds and emeralds and had horizontally aligned teardrop-shaped lenses. His ongoing collaboration with the jewellery model may trace at an eyewear assortment sooner or later — one that may probably be manner out of my price range, however a pleasure to admire from afar.
Be a part of me in daydreaming about at some point proudly owning diamond-adorned sunnies by testing Williams’s pair intimately forward.
