Pharrell Williams is a busy man. While overseeing men’s at Louis Vuitton and on the heels of launching a latest book, the multihyphenate star can be introducing latest Humanrace skincare products.

“Paris has been exceptional,” he said over Zoom on Monday, from his current home base.  

He was in a cheerful spirit, hinting to big news for Humanrace.

“That’s materializing as we speak, so I’m not at liberty to enter it. But, it’s coming. And it’s very exciting,” he said when asked about his ultimate hope for the brand.

Working with Dr. Elena Jones, chief executive officer Rachel Muscat and chief creative officer Edward Robinson, Williams founded Humanrace in 2020. He launched with a rice powder cleanser, lotus enzyme exfoliator and snow mushroom face cream as a part of a three-step routine, before expanding into body care with soap-free bars and a body cream, in addition to sun care.

Now, he’s introducing two gel-based products: the $44 “7D Retrograde Gel Cleanser” (formulated with apple fruit extract and vitamin B) and $58 “7D Mystifying Gel Moisturizer” (with niacinamide, pseudoalteromonas ferment extract and blue light protection). A set is offered for $85.

“For me, the interest centers on what it’s that I learned from my dermatologist, who I even have been going to for over 20 years,” he said of Jones, discussing the brand new goods. “A wonderful, Black, talented woman out in Latest York City together with her own exploding practice — and just the journey that I’ve been on together with her. She’s been teaching me this whole time.”

He’s learned two major lessons, he went on: “Primary, routine is all the things. However the second thing, man, the best way you get to that baby soft skin and that freshness and that youth is literally by the best way that you simply’re cleansing and the best way that you simply’re exfoliating.”

The regimen is sealed with the last step. “The way in which that it finishes, the moisturizer is just next level,” he added.

Product testing begins with Williams, and he’s simply “a gel guy,” he said. “I’ve all the time been the variety of individual that just loves gels. what I’m saying?”

The previous launches set the tone in “laying the muse for what we’re doing,” he continued. The expansion marks where the brand is heading.

“It’s about offering alternative to as many humans as we could,” Muscat said. “And gel versus rice, it’s really about that option of the feel and the way it feels to you. That was really vital as we’re constructing out the categories, knowing that we wish to be certain that we now have that alternative for our customer.”

Humanrace is, evidently, for humans — it’s the one demographic in mind. “That’s really all we take a look at,” Williams said of shoppers. “This has never been about gender. It’s all the time been about humans, and it’s really not about skin color as much because it’s about skin type. We’re just trying to fulfill everybody within the intersection of success for skin health.”

Humanrace — now a team of 20, working with consultants — will soon be available worldwide through its direct-to-consumer channel online at humanrace.com. “Right away, we service the U.K., the U.S., Europe, Australia [and] Latest Zealand, and by the tip of the yr, Q4, we’ll be global,” Muscat said. U.S. retailers include Credo Beauty, Goop, Nordstrom and The Webster.

Asked about Louis Vuitton, Williams said, “I just feel honored to be on the helm of all of it. And I feel like, you recognize, like I said, this shouldn’t be a job. I used to be chosen. So, for me it is a dream. I never dreamt that I could be chosen, you recognize? While you seem like me and also you come from where I come from, we now have aspirations, we now have ambitions. This shouldn’t be one among them. Because I just couldn’t even fathom it.”

He emphasized the team around him: “This chance to work with such an incredible, comprehensive team of masterful artisans just reminds you that — it humbles you. Some things you may beat your chest and pat yourself on the back for, but there’s quite a bit that your human eyes can’t see. As you stand in front of a mountain, simply because you may’t see what’s on the opposite side doesn’t mean that there isn’t one other side. And it doesn’t mean that there aren’t much more mountains that the universe wants for you, should you would just humble down and trust the method. And that’s right where I’m.”