Louis Vuitton 選ぶs Pharrell Williams to 長，率いる menswear designs
By Mimosa Spencer and Lisa Richwine
PARIS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - LVMH's 最高の，を越す label Louis Vuitton said on Tuesday it has 雇うd Pharrell Williams to 長，率いる artistic direction of its menswear designs, （電話線からの）盗聴 a popular 人物／姿／数字 from the music 産業 to fill the high-profile position left 空いている since the death of 星／主役にする designer Virgil Abloh over a year ago.
"Louis Vuitton is delighted to welcome @Pharrell as its new Men´s Creative Director", Louis Vuitton said in a tweet, 確認するing earlier 報告（する）／憶測s from the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 and the French daily Le Figaro.
Williams' first collection for the label will be shown in June during Men's Fashion Week in Paris, the brand 追加するd.
Williams rose to fame in the music 商売／仕事 as a 生産者 and singer with 攻撃する，衝突するs 含むing "Happy" and "Blurred Lines." He has won 13 Grammy awards and was a 裁判官 on the popular singing 競争 show "The 発言する／表明する."
"Happy," written for the animated movie "Despicable Me 2," earned Williams one of his two Oscar 指名／任命s. His second 学院 Award nod （機の）カム as a 生産者 of best picture 指名された人 "Hidden 人物／姿／数字s."
Williams also has 広範囲にわたる experience in the fashion 産業. He played a 役割 in the rise of streetwear, co-設立するing the label 億万長者 Boys Club with Japanese designer Nigo in 2003, and 開始する，打ち上げるing 共同s with Adidas 同様に as 高級な brands Moncler and Chanel. In 2004, he 共同製作するd with Louis Vuitton designer Marc Jacobs, designing eyewear for the label.
Last year, Williams created buzz when he turned up for Nigo's debut fashion show in Paris for LVMH-owned label Kenzo wearing diamond-studded glasses made by Tiffany - another design 事業／計画（する） with a brand belonging to LVMH.
The appointm ent 示すs the first move by Louis Vuitton's newly 任命するd CEO, Pietro Beccari.
"Williams is a 重要な 雇う, needed to fill the big boots left by Virgil Abloh," said 分析家s at Credit Suisse, 公式文書，認めるing that the "major move" by the new CEO 示唆するs the brand's links with pop culture and music will continue.
Abloh, who died in November 2021, was fashion's highest-profile 黒人／ボイコット designer and symbolized the fusion of streetwear with high-end fashion, mixing 影響（力）s like graffiti art and skateboard culture into his styles.
The label's design studios have since drawn on Abloh's designs, bringing in performers 範囲ing from Florida's Marching 100 禁止（する）d and rapper Kendrick Lamar to Spanish singer Rosalia to energize catwalk shows. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Mimosa Spencer in Paris and Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles 令状ing by Tassilo Hummel Editing by Leslie Adler and Matthew 吊りくさび)
