Pharrell Williams Louis Vuitton Resort 2025 Menswear Review

This season the Big Dog at Louis Vuitton menswear turned the maison into a niche à chien. Alongside a barking selection of LVers-branded dog accessories—among them, a bowl, harness, poop-bag holder, collar, and a magnificently OTT Louis Vuitton dog house—Pharrell Williams and his studio unleashed a pedigree collection of menswear and human accessories too. This lookbook starred many good boys. The fun came in spotting the various dog-related details that came inserted within the menswear. These included an intarsia shearling jacket and sneaker patterned with Dalmatian dots, dog crest shirting, loafers with bone-charm collar detailing, a double-dog portrait silk souvenir jacket, dog portrait bandanas, many best-in-show rosettes, and an ingeniously conceived “meta houndstooth” that replaced a dog head for the more traditional chickenfoot element. Dog-sized berets were worn alongside man-size equivalents, and bone shaped bowl trunks and multiple dog luggage tags—in paw print or portrait designs—were sprinkled amongst a collection of bags that included freshly fabricated Keepalls and Messengers and a new four-pocket Cargo Hobo design. It wasn’t all about dogs. Feline pattern jumbo slippers and loafers made for an inclusive gesture while the backdrop to all that puppy product was a menswear collection that more broadly expanded Willams’s specific take on contemporary dandyism. The rosettes gestured to the ceremony of the dog show, which proved a bridge into looks referencing Bri