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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thomas Adamson

Pharrell Williams is named a UNESCO goodwill ambassador

France UNESCO Pharrell Williams - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Pop star and fashion designer Pharrell Williams was named UNESCO’s goodwill ambassador for artistic education and entrepreneurship on Tuesday in Paris, continuing his cultural dominance of the French capital as Louis Vuitton menswear artistic director and performer at Notre Dame Cathedral’s reopening earlier this month.

Williams said he hoped to “deepen that sense of unity and togetherness” in work that “evens the odds for marginalized communities.”

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