“I have immense gratitude for this moment, and I am electrified with excitement,” says the musician-turned-designer, who is gearing up for the most anticipated show of the SS24 menswear season.
Williams settles on a sofa with his LV monogram coffee cup. The titanic statue of LV-collaborating artist Yayoi Kusama that’s been installed in the street outside peers through the window behind him as he unpacks some of what he’s been preparing these last few months – and joins a few of the dots around that appointment. Edited here and there, this is how the conversation went.It’s immersive.
Yeah. My life is a collaboration. And my gift is to collaborate. Because while [this] is a place where I can contribute ideas and my vision, I’m here with people who are far more talented than me. They’re masters, so I have a crash course in other methods, other processes, other points of view, and new opportunities. I pride myself on collaboration, and this is no different.
Vision. And sometimes it’s to get into the weeds of it all, to enter the granular details. That’s very important to me. One should be able to zoom in and zoom out of the vision. The collection and the show is all 4K. It is. So you can zoom into a thread or back all the way out and see the motif of how we are looking at things like Damier. But I’m already saying too much…Love. And convenience. For me, another word for convenience is luxury.
First of all, of course, people are going to say that. I didn’t go to Central Saint Martins. But, you know, I didn’t go to Juilliard either to study music. And I’ve done alright. As Black people on this planet, we’re used to that, telling us what you can or cannot do… But you can’t tell the universe what’s going to be written. You can work with it, co-conspire and co-create, but you can’t tell the universe what’s going to be.
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