Pharrell Williams continues trying out new careers, designing another piece of furniture for Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Following last year’s “Perspective,” a chair resting on a man and woman’s legs in a unsubtle homage to sex, comes “The Tank.” Riding on plexiglass treads, the leather seat, upholstered in blue, black, white or pink, will be unveiled at Art Basel Miami next week to help generate some hype.
Recently, Pharrell Williams modeled a fixed gear bike to help promote a collaboration with Element Skateboards and Brooklyn Machine Works, which he partly owns. The two companies co-branded the Brooklyn Element, a newer version of the BMW Gangsta Track, and an accompanying clothing line that has as much to do with cycling as the rap mogul.
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In a post titled “Oops,” Pharrell waxes poetic about his ludicrous Canal Street-style gold G-Shock watch: “My jeweler says it looks like I dropped this G Shock in a tavern filled of yellow rock candy…Well,I think it’s more like a thousand fire flies in a jar.” |Honeyee|
Suspect-skater turned music producer and fashion trend hog Pharrell Williams graces the March cover of Nylon Guys, and he’s wearing color-splashed skinny Gucci jeans that would make Kanye’s fashion week entourage salivate. Besides the jeans that are already getting co-signed by faux-tastemakers and the usual cone-munchers, the cover story reveals what sets Skateboard P apart from fellow flamboyant rapper Kanye West: “There’s a difference between me and somebody like Kanye. He plans for it. I never do. It just happens. While I’m left feeling lucky, he’s left feeling like an architect. Kanye always knew he was gonna be big. I can’t believe it still. I never imagined it.” Right. And no one ever imagined you’d actually wear those jeans.
After briefly lending graphic designer KAWS to Kanye West to do the cover art for his new album, Pharrell Williams has reclaimed him. The Imperial Skateboard P recently purchased one of the artist’s life size Chum characters—yes it’s basically the Michelin Man with some slight tweaks—and had it installed in his Miami house. |BBCIceCream|
Not since the “P” was free in 1986 has any rapper besides KRS-One made any mention of fixed gear bikes. Twenty-two years later, Pharrell drops this line: “And I’ll be pedaling backwards like a Track Bike” in a new track he did with Common. Of course they cut to an image of BMX bike but that’s Hip Hop baby. Unrelated: Dre gets nice product placement for these.
After resuscitating dead icons like Hunter S. Thompson and Sid Viscious for their “Connectivity” ad campaign, Converse announced three new artists—all living—to help them sell Chucks and celebrate the brand’s centennial anniversary. The N.E.R.D.’s Pharrell Williams, Santogold, and Julian Casablancas from the Strokes collaborated on a “genre-blending” track called “My Drive Thru” which can be exclusively downloaded for free at converse.com starting tomorrow or you can just get it here now (via). Pharrell describes his reasoning for getting down on this project, “Working together on original music that crossed all of our inspirations was completely refreshing and I love the track. As for partnering with Converse, I only wear and support the things that I like. The Chuck Taylor is the golden goose egg.” And as you all know, you never kill the goose that lays the golden egg, in this case, big buck spending Converse.
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