On the first day of Paris Fashion Week, Pharrell Williams unveiled a long-standing vision of luxury where life and clothing come together.
Menswear shows don’t get much bigger than Pharrell Williams’ Louis Vuitton runways. The creative multihyphenate merges fashion, celebrity, and music into one blockbuster billing that yesterday saw Callum Turner, Skepta, and Finn Bennett in attendance.
But for his Autumn/Winter 2026 offering, titled “Timeless”, things took on a different feel. At the heart of the show space was the “Drophaus”, a mid-century modern home made by Williams, featuring furniture designed by Paulin Paulin Paulin crafted with the clean lines and purpose-driven approach of the design style.
This homely serenity made sense given the show invitation was a pair of leather house slippers. It’s exactly the type of thing that you’d expect someone who lives in a house like this to wear. But it also foreshadowed the more muted collection that followed.
We got a swarm of chilled-out and unstructured suiting. Opening looks saw full-cut double-breasted suits. Some were worn as standalone looks, then with heavyweight parkas, and others layered with rain jackets or cocooned by puffer coats. We also saw relaxed, single-breasted blazer-track top hybrids with drawstring hems and cuffed sleeves, top coats with bow fastenings, and shorts worn in place of trousers. This was classic-leaning stuff that can comfortably be dressed up, or down – as Williams showed with flying colours. It’s also resistant to trends, just like the clean serenity of mid-century spaces.
As it turns out, things weren’t always as they seemed. This is the guy who transformed Louis Vuitton’s historic damier print into a tripped-out “Damoflauge” in his first season. T-shirts were woven in vicuña wool and lumberjack shirts were laser printed on a mesh base. Raindrops (a motif stemming from the drop-like shape of the Drophaus) were made from hotfix crystal, hand-embellished onto garments and Keepalls, with a new LV Drop sneaker continuing the theme.
Of course, the Monogram was in the mix, applied to trenches and bags spanning Keepalls, Speedys and enlarged duffles. And there were massive trunks wheeled by workwear-donning operatives – that social media-baiting Pharrellism that scores big each season. That’s the beauty of a timeless wardrobe. It gives you space to get a little freaky and fancy with the add-ons.
With its Autumn/Winter 2026 collection, LV showed that luxury doesn’t need to be overt. It is something that goes beyond what we wear. It’s how you live. Williams connected those dots within the Louis Vuitton world, with a vision of ease, detail, and precision landing like a rocket ship (or a mid-century home) from space.
