Inside Pharrell Williams’s Fashionable Journey to Dakar for the Chanel Present

After all, the star wanted his personal assertion outfit for the affair. Williams wore Chanel’s purple floral-print button-up shirt and below-the-knee shorts, full with an identical bucket hat and mini quilted necklace bag. Shorts are his signature merchandise, he says. “I’m a shorts man, although these had been the longest shorts I’ve worn in a very long time,” Williams says. “My shorts are normally shorter; I lean in direction of a Eighties tennis-player form of factor. However this was a really completely different look—one thing flowy and tremendous snug.” He provides that the label’s smooth, common enchantment is what retains him coming again for extra. “They make sure issues that I can simply pull off,” Williams says. “Whether or not it’s a girls’s cardigan, or a black jacket which was actually impressed by a males’s silhouette of a bellman’s jacket, a number of the issues that Coco Chanel did within the very starting borrowed from issues that had a really masculine impetus.”

Williams made positive to absorb among the sights outdoors of the present. “We went in all places from the markets to the hood,” Williams says. “We went to this place referred to as Medina; it was very stunning.” The star additionally made stops on the Bufalo Soldier Music Store, the place he met the proprietor, Cheikh Amala Doucouré, and visited among the Dakar markets too. “We noticed every thing from attire to jewellery, and fashionable and historic statues,” Williams says. “I didn’t do an excessive amount of procuring, although. I used to be extra taken with people-watching.”  His major takeaway from all the locals? “You see the resiliency of the individuals and also you sense that immense delight that they’ve their very own sovereignty.”