Pharrell Williams, Vuitton Mens’ chair, defiantly answered France’s heat dome with a thirty-foot wall of water and surfboards on a sand runway. Ten days after the NBA finals, Wemby was there.
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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 23: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Designer Pharrell Williams walks the runway during the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
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The very fine Corbis shooter Stephane Cardinale snagged the portrait of the Vuitton menswear boss Pharrell Williams executing a crisp drill-sergeant’s valedictory at review as his show finished on – no lie – a man-made beach with a 30-foot-tall waterfall masquerading as a monster wave about to break, complete with some illusory foam at its peak. The models, and Pharrell, emerged from a sly curtain from within the wave, which was built to look as if it very much threatened to break onto Vuitton’s double front row. The June 23 venue was an outdoor one in a courtyard space on Paris’ own Cite Internationale Universitaire’s sprawling campus in the 14th Arondissement.
PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 23: Victor Wembanyama attends the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images For Louis Vuitton)
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Sporting a no-nonsense bespoke khaki suit and his man-sized kelly green Vuitton backpack, San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama is cool, collected and seemingly well-past his team’s recent loss in the NBA finals in the Vuitton arrivals area. Talk about some good drape by good fabric. That one-button (!) jacket with its almost-a-tailcoat cut swerving out at the beltline to wrap the hips is screaming couture. Man is quietly stylish.
PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 23: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Jeremy Allen White attends the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)
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Not so quiet but definitly stylish in a shiny bluefin-belly-white tie on a generously cut matte, gun-blue dress shirt is the spirited Jeremy Allen White, pictured above taking a quick smoke break at Vuitton on June 23.
PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 23: Victor Wembanyama attends the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images For Louis Vuitton)
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Was it Wemby drawing all the other players to Paris? What was it? Was there a secret afterparty at some point with a height restriction – no man under 6’-8" allowed inside? Whatever else the France’s heat dome accomplished this past week – and it did wreak some deadly havoc – the basketball players showed up.
PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 25: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Diamant Blazi attends the Amiri Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 25, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Jacopo Raule/Getty Images)
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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 24: Willow Smith attends the Christian Louboutin Men Spring/Summer 2027 Presentation as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 24, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Jacopo Raule/Getty Images)
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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 24: Jean Charles de Castelbajac attends the Jeanne Friot Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 24, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Foc Kan/WireImage)
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