CULTURE CLUB: Followers of French vogue journalist and documentary maker Loïc Prigent’s YouTube channel will know he just lately dropped his fly-on-the-wall video of Pharrell Williams’ debut menswear present for Louis Vuitton in June.
Now, vogue followers can delve even deeper with the launch of the home’s first podcast, “Louis Vuitton [Extended,]” designed to cement its aura as a “cultural” model.
Episode one, set to go stay on Thursday, options the “Pleased” singer speaking about his sources of inspiration and the creation of the present, which drew the likes of Beyoncé, Rihanna and Zendaya, and ended with a live performance by Jay-Z.
Hosted by Prigent, the English-language podcast will present a bimonthly “deep dive into the inventive coronary heart, minds and initiatives of the maison,” Vuitton mentioned.
Members can be assorted, starting from the home’s inventive administrators to a chef who has labored with Louis Vuitton on one among its many culinary initiatives, or an artist on a collaborative design venture, for instance. The episodes, lasting 20 to 40 minutes, can be obtainable totally free on the primary audio streaming platforms.
Within the inaugural episode, Williams defined his determination to ask Voices of Hearth, the gospel choir he recruited by way of a 2020 Netflix sequence, to carry out his authentic tune “Pleasure (Unspeakable)” on the occasion.
“I wished folks to be clear that the universe had the solar shining on me, and so I felt like the best strategy to categorical that on the top of it was with the tune ‘Pleasure’ by Voices of Hearth,” he mentioned. “It’s like a Hallmark card for encouragement. Whenever you’re feeling low, and you are feeling such as you don’t have another solutions, religion is a really highly effective factor.
“And it doesn’t imply that it’s, like, 100% on all people on the time that they need it, but it surely’s 100% as a result of it does come round. Perhaps not in your time, but it surely’s gonna come round on the universe’s time. And I don’t know, there was only a feeling from that, that I wished the world to really feel,” Williams continued.
Prigent additionally hosts his personal podcast in French, “Au coeur de la mode,” by which he offers behind-the-scenes commentary on vogue exhibits along with his cameraman Julien Da Costa, recorded within the automotive between venues.
