Pharrell Williams Embraces India at Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026

Pharrell Williams frames Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026 around India’s rich textile language, staging a Snakes-and-Ladders runway to match.

Pharrell Williams Embraces India at Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026

Pharrell Williams turned a Paris courtyard into a life-size “Snakes and Ladders” board. Conceived with Studio Mumbai, the set cast audience and models alike as game pieces, underscoring the season’s chief reference: contemporary India.

Drawing on present-day Indian dress, Williams delivered soft tailoring in washed cashmere-silk, vicuña and fine wools, dyed in indigo violet, light camel, coffee brown and dusty pastels that echoed Jaipur’s terracotta-sandstone glow at dusk. Chocolate denim, embroidered with micro-beads, sat beside a check shell suit woven entirely from metal yarn. The house monogram appeared on ready-to-wear and leather baggage in equal measure.

Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026

The line favoured wardrobe reality over runway excess: buttery leather jackets, neat overcoats, roomy dress trousers and short-sleeve button-ups looked geared for retail, a pragmatic answer to LVMH’s recent sales chill. Still, metallic jackets and ties, plus animal-patterned suits and coats, satisfied clients who expect a louder note from Louis Vuitton.

Motifs from The Darjeeling Limited animated embroideries and prints, including designs re-applied to the very bags carried by the film’s characters. A coffee-bean denim wash, engineered to fade and expose white weft yarns, deepened Williams’s exploration of dye craft. Mountaineering pieces, shell jackets and hiking boots, leaned “glamping,” trimmed with heritage patterns and ornate beadwork.

Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026

Accessories ranged from Cruiser Duffles and Mini Shoppers in patinated leather or embroidered canvas to LV Jazz lace-ups, Tilted skate shoes and Buttersoft sneakers. Crocodile or suede hiking boots, ostrich loafers and oversized sandals joined jewellery, bandanas, hats and belts that read as traveling talismans, souvenirs of a journey across the subcontinent.

Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026

A soundtrack composed and produced by Williams blended Voices of Fire, A. R. Rahman, Clipse, Doechii and Tyler, the Creator, turning the courtyard into a brief meeting point for Paris and Mumbai. True to the house’s legacy of travel, Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2026 menswear marries Indian craft with French polish.

Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring 2026
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