Take me higher!

Pharrell Williams 5.4.1973 Ox 5.9.2 = 7

Naomi Campbell Jay-Z & Beyoncé Zendaya

Lenny Kravitz Takashi Murakami Lewis Hamilton

Rihanna & A$AP Rocky Willow & Jaden Smith Savannah & LeBron James

Kim Kardashian Jared Leto Kelly Rowland

J. Balvin Jackson Wang Maluma

Miranda Kerr John Boyega Megan Thee Stallion

Anitta Offset Coi Leray

Tyler The Creator Marcus Rashford Jude Bellingham Jaylen Brown Jerry Lorenzo

Karl Lagerfeld Jeanne Beker John Galliano

#BAM! Congratulations to Pharrell Williams and the creative team at Louis Vuitton. Most of all, thanks to the management/finance team at Louis Vuitton for correctly reading the planet and dropping a genius from the Hip-Hop generation into Louis Vuitton Menswear. I remember, back in the day, every Saturday at 1830, me and a bunch of Coloured Queens would hang out to see CityTV’s FT (Fashion Television) with Toronto’s own, Jeanne Beker. No other shows were more hotly anticipated than those by designers, John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. All the right people would be in attendance and the fashion stars from Anna Wintour to André Leon Talley would be dispensing bon mots et plus.

Anna Wintour Pharrell Williams André Leon Talley

Not since then have I been so wowed by a show. Like a Galliano & Lagerfeld non-haute couture show, this inaugural Louis Vuitton Menswear S/S 2024 had all that fabulous theatricality. This show though, went one octave higher, there was this fabulous, glorious music, taking you higher! I watched Angolan model, Maria Borges’s Instagram Live as she partied and hollered at the Jay-Z post show performance, featuring none other than Pharrell Williams himself. This was the most glorious experience. Stunning and that gold coat would look so nice in red!

Jay-Z & Pharrell Williams

And, it always comes back to the joy we have of music! Jazz is the culture, Black culture.

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Life is like a flying dream; if you look down, you’re fucked. Enjoy the ride and fear no one!

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