Pharrell Williams Has Always Embodied This Year's Met Gala Theme
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.2 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
May Cover Star and 2025 Met Co-Chair Pharrell Williams joins Chloe and Chioma on today’s episode of The Run-Through! He walks listeners through his daily routine as the Creative Director of Louis Vuitton menswear/star producer/mogul, often inhabiting all three roles in a single day. He also reveals exactly often inhabiting all three roles in a single day. He also reveals exactly how Anna asked him to co-chair and shares his thoughts on this year’s theme, saying:
"It's going to be a very impactful, beautiful night where we celebrate the color Black. We celebrate the things that come from that color. We celebrate the mentality. We celebrate the plight. We celebrate the progress and the success."
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Run Through is brought to you by eBay. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue's Beauty Editor at Large. |
| 0:06.9 | Everyone's talking about tassels right now, and that's the moment that I end up typing it into eBay. |
| 0:11.4 | I found the perfect vintage triple chain belt with golden tassels, and it just looks so elegant, timeless, and it's on the way in the mail to me thanks to eBay. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Chloe Mel, and I'm Cherminardi. |
| 0:32.7 | And this is The Run Through. |
| 0:34.6 | So we're in full MetGala mode here. And so it just only makes sense that we |
| 0:40.7 | should talk to one of our co-chairs this year. Choma and I have been really looking forward to |
| 0:45.1 | this interview. And we had such an amazing time chatting with Ferell, who happened to be in Dubai |
| 0:50.4 | when we spoke. And everyone, I'm sure, knows now that Choma spoke to Farrell for this month's cover story. |
| 0:58.3 | Anything that you always take away from interviewing Farrell that stands out to you? |
| 1:03.0 | I'm always sort of fascinated by the way he is able to kind of switch gears in his brain and just the sort of bigness of his thinking |
| 1:12.2 | and his imagination. Like he's always kind of thinking beyond this world. Yeah. I like that. |
| 1:17.2 | And there's sort of audaciousness of that. He's always thinking, well, how can we do X? You know, |
| 1:21.7 | how can we push it further? His energy is always, is always kind of infectious and inspiring. |
| 1:28.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.8 | You know. |
| 1:29.7 | And it doesn't hurt when you're walking on him. |
| 1:31.5 | And he's like, making a song. |
| 1:34.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:34.9 | He is like, our Quincy Jones. |
| 1:36.5 | Like he's so, I mean, his influence on culture from all angles is just so impressive. |
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