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Is Pharrell, The First Man To Model A Chanel Bag, Pushing Any Boundaries?

In promoting a $4,000 handbag, is the producer widening the boundaries of hip-hop fashion?
Caroline De Maigret and Pharrell Williams attend a dinner held in their honor by Chanel in April, 2017. Williams became the first male to front a campaign for the luxury fashion brand's handbags.

Lastweek, made history as the first man to ever front a handbag campaign for Chanel. In a by the historic Parisian fashion house, the musician enters an empty soundstage wearing one of the brand's tweed blazers, while the camera pans to the black alligator and lambskin hobo bag hanging beside him. Though Kristen Stewart, Cara Delevingne and couture muse Caroline de Maigret will also take part in the campaign, Karl Lagerfeld, who has helmed Chanel since 1983, said his intention was to show that the bag can be

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