Louis Vuitton Men's Creative Director Pharrell Williams stops to talk with La La Anthony about the honor of being a Met Gala co-chair for 2025.
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00:00All right, one of my faves is here, shutting it down.
00:02I saw you coming all the way up, Pharrell is here.
00:04I was like, oh, no, no, this is different.
00:07All right, first, you are a co-chair for tonight's Gala.
00:11Tell me, what does that feel like, especially for a theme like this?
00:14Well, I'm honored to, you know, while having the appointment over at Louis Vuitton,
00:20you know, for Anna to ask me after my first show.
00:22Right.
00:23It was like where it all started, you know, because I had like a very dandy aspect to my show.
00:28And that was a part of like the show notes.
00:31And so afterwards, we had like a breakfast the next morning over at the Ritz.
00:35And that's when she said, look, you know, I want you to host with me in 2025.
00:41So we've been sitting on this for like two years.
00:43And couldn't tell anybody.
00:44Couldn't say anything.
00:45Couldn't say anything.
00:46No, but we've been planning and, you know, we're finally here.
00:49And I just, I'm grateful that she's given us platform.
00:52And the theme is what it is.
00:54It celebrates that incredible color black.
00:56A hundred percent, right.
00:57And, and the people and, um, which is an American story and, and dandyism, which is, like I said,
01:06like, you know, how you feel when you wake up, where you're going and what the weather's going to be like,
01:10you know, and having that keen and acute attention to detail.
01:15That's everything.
01:16That's, that's the sport of dandyism.
01:18So for real, when you think of like the icons of our generation,
01:21who do you think embodies like what a black dandy and dandyism is like, what, what comes to your mind?
01:27The working class.
01:28The working class.
01:29That's where I come from.
01:30Because, you know, you work your ass off and then like all week.
01:33And then when it's time for Sunday's finest.
01:34You throw it on.
01:35Yeah.
01:36You throw that, you put that stuff on.
01:39That's it.
01:39All right.
01:40And tell me about your inspiration behind your look tonight.
01:42Well, you know, the, the, the Bond Street, Silver Road, textile inspiration of pinstripe, but just in pearls.
01:52I love this.
01:53Pinstripe, pearls.
01:54I love this.
01:55You see it?
01:56You see the pearls?
01:57Yeah, yeah.
01:57You see the pearls?
01:58You see the pearls?
01:59Come on.
01:59You need to find a game and stop playing with me.
02:02You know, I always love to see you.
02:03No, you too.
02:04I appreciate you.
02:05I always appreciate you.
02:07Blessings.
02:07All right.