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Today, Explained

Pharrell Vuitton

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Pharrell Williams was happy to be named the new head of Louis Vuitton’s menswear, but his appointment had fashion industry hopefuls feeling like they never get lucky. Nick Kostov and Jacob Gallagher from the Wall Street Journal explain their scoop. This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some musicians are so big, they only need one name.

0:03.4

Madonna, Prince, Beyonce, Shakira, Rihanna, Adele, and Farell.

0:08.6

Farell might be the smallest of those big names I just mentioned,

0:11.4

but he's arguably played the biggest role out of all of them

0:14.3

in shaping popular music over the last quarter century.

0:18.0

He was the guy behind this.

0:19.7

And this.

0:22.5

And this.

0:25.1

And this.

0:26.1

And this.

0:33.1

And this.

0:36.0

And of course this.

0:40.5

But also this.

0:44.0

But now Farell is going to try and conquer an entirely different industry.

0:50.4

He's going to be one of the top guys at the biggest luxury fashion house in the world.

0:55.0

That story from the two guys who broke the news is coming up on today's point.

1:00.4

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