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"FacebookPinterest\n\nPharrell on Fashion\n\nWith his solo album In My Mind set for release, the performer discusses one of the many things he knows so well.\n\nLet's talk custom: Is it a phase, or does it go beyond being a trend?\n\nCustom is not a phase\u2014the custom mentality symbolizes that you have the money to commission anything you want, like when the pope commissioned Michelangelo to customize the interiors of the great chapels.\n\nOkay. then tell me about the Rolls. \n\nEver since I saw pictures of John Lennon in a Rolls-Royce, I was like, Whoa, that would be so cool. Then I heard of the Phantom, and that name was so great that I had to have one. I asked a girl\u2014from a royal background that I was hanging out with\u2014what's a regal and rich color. She said red, and I was like, you're right. I almost did royal blue leather, which was supertacky\u2014like, terrible. I was thinking blue blood, but red blood is what the world knows.\n\nAre you conscious of not looking like anyone else in hip-hop? \n\nI've always worn what I thought was cool. It was studded T-shirts from Ron Herman, like, seven years ago. Then I wore couture, but that's not me anymore. Clothing is a statement. It's an extension of how you feel that day or that moment.\n\nDo you find that people copy you? And don't bullshit\u2014for example, when you watch MTV. \n\nSure, but I didn't invent the clothes. That's like your mother being offended that your friend's mom made the same dish she served the night before.\n\nYou're designing jewelry for Louis Vuitton. How'd that come about? \n\nI told Marc [Jacobs, artistic director for Louis Vuitton] that I wanted to do jewelry for LV. I got my designs and ideas together. I'm excited. I did a lot of research. It's gonna be major\u2026superregal.\n\nDo you think you're a fashion icon? \n\nNo. That would be pretty cocky and pretty cancerous to your creativity if you walked around thinking that.\n\nYour watch is major. Did you design it with Jacob the Jeweler? \n\nYeah. At times I draw my ideas, or I bring in pictures, and tell him what kind of diamonds and settings I want.\n\nIs it insured? \n\nWhat do you think?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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