From Notre-Dame to UNESCO, Pharrell Williams on the front line

He repeats it again and again, he adores France, and our country repays him. This year 2024 will go down as a great year for Pharrell Williams. After singing his famous hit Happy on the Notre-Dame square for the re-opening, the producer-singer-entrepreneur and artistic director of Louis Vuitton Homme, always very elegant in “LV”, was named Goodwill Ambassador by Audrey Azoulay, at the Paris headquarters of Unesco.

The ceremony took place in a relaxed atmosphere in front of a small audience of 80 people, including many representatives of the flagship LVMH brand. Participants included the United States Ambassador Courtney Diesel O’Donnell, Alexandre Arnault, director of LVMH and vice-president of Tiffany & Co, American writers living in Paris Poppy Harlow and Lindsey Tramuta and even Jean-Michel Jarre. The musician-composer, also a Goodwill Ambassador, who, like Pharrell Williams, has distinguished himself…