TOWith the Milan men’s fashion week archived, it’s time to move to the French capital. Where the Louis Vuitton Men’s 2025 fashion show inaugurated the Paris Fashion Week Men’s dedicated toAutumn-Winter 2025/26.
Remember The Future is the title of the latest collection signed by the creative director Pharrell Williamswho for the occasion chose to collaborate with an industry giant (and his great friend). The show, in fact, was co-authored together with Nigoveteran of fashion and in particular of streetwearcurrently driving Kenzoanother fashion house in the LVMH portfolio. The Louis Vuitton Men’s 2025 fashion show was thus transformed into a celebration of friendship and the meeting between different cultures and aesthetics, perfectly balanced between past and present.
From the archive to the future
This is the creative process behind the latest collection created by Pharell. It will not be surprising, then, that the setting of the show, set up within the Louvrewas built to remember the vault of a bank, called to safeguard the items from the past of the French fashion houseof same creative director and the immense production of Nigo. Two philosophies, two ways of being, therefore coexist on the Louis Vuitton catwalk. There is no shortage, for example, of the famous LVERSembodiment of Pharrell’s vision since his debut, happily “contaminated” by the imagination of the Japanese designer and music producer.
Louis Vuitton Men’s 2025 fashion show, between streetwear and dandies
The Louis Vuitton Men’s Autumn-Winter 2025/26 collection is configured, then, as the contemporary revisitation of well-recognizable aesthetic codes, those that still define the French maison and Nigo’s work. Enriched, however, by the homage and reference to subcultures which profoundly marked the production of the two designers involved. Almost surprisingly, the show opened with a series of looks devoted to more traditional tailoring, which soon transformed into knitted cardigans, shorts with an elegant appeal and impeccably cut leather bomber jackets.
A look from the Louis Vuitton Men’s Autumn-Winter 2025/26 collection (Photo: Spotlight Launchmetrics)
The influence of the imagination is recognised, unequivocal and evident workwearexpressed through carpenter pantsvest with zips and pockets, as well as new ones sneakers with oversized proportions. Then there were some varsity jackets and shirts “stolen” from the world of football, enriched with monogram motifs or written in Japanese. The denim confirms itself as an essential protagonist, accompanied by the introduction of a new motif in the tones of rose and a series of trunks signed by Azuma Makoto.
Another Louis Vuitton Men’s FW 25/26 look designed jointly by Pharrell Williams and Nigo (Photo: Spotlight Launchmetrics)
A stellar front row
Bradley Cooper photographed between the basketball player Victor Wembanyama and the French actor Omar Sy (Photo by Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty Images)
Pharrell Williams’ fashion shows have now transcended the boundaries of the fashion industry, establishing themselves as one of the most glamorous and anticipated events of Fashion Week (and beyond). Proof of this is the very rich man front row who attended the last fashion show of the French fashion house. They were in fact present to admire the new LV collection Bradley Cooper, Idris Elba, Adrien Brody (spotted a few days ago in Milan), Callum Turner And Travis Scott.
Louis Vuitton’s latest collection thus builds a precious and very current dialogue between rap And fashionBetween subcultures And luxuryBetween Japan And France. Writing an unprecedented page in the history of streetwear, simultaneously giving shape to a new idea of menswear.
Perfectly balanced between past, present and future.
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