Virginia’s own Pharrell Williams covers this months issue of the body art book, Inked. Get into his quotes on Tat’s, bling & his strange influences for inspiration - Devante Swing?
On his Tattoo idols…
“DeVante Swing, who was an R&B producer from this group called Jodeci, he had tons of tattoos and I thought it was the coolest in the world. When I saw Lenny Kravitz’s sleeves, I was like ‘Yo, I gotta have that.’ Then when I met Fred Durst. Fred had tattoos everywhere. I was like, ‘That’s it. I’m doing it.’ All my friends thought I was out of my mind.”
On Comparing Tats with Marc Jacobs…
“Between the M&M and the Simpsons stuff, he’s got some interesting ink. I thought it was cool that he doesn’t have any boundaries. That’s what I admire about his tattoos. They’re just different. If I had to do it all over again, I’d probably get Japanimation all over myself. There are probably so many kids that have done that already, though. I’m so mad I didn’t think it out first. There are so many other things I could have done. I could have done all of the BBC icons and all of the different brands that I like that are iconic. But then I’d probably be feeling this way now wanting to do something different.”
On his collaboration with Louis Vuitton…
“But that’s what makes for good collaborations. Think about it. They just did a collaboration with Richard Prince, which was far different from anything they do. They did Murakami too, which was different but fit in wonderfully.”
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