Florida A&M Marching 100 delivers electrifying performance during Louis Vuitton Fashion Show

Louis Vuitton’s men’s spring-summer months 2023 manner clearly show was comprehensive of electrifying moments, and the monumental existence of Florida A&M University’s Marching 100 was one particular of them.

The legendary band from FAMU — a traditionally Black college and university — billed on to the vivid runway wearing the school’s signature environmentally friendly and orange although actively playing jubilant tunes by suggests of bellowing drums, trumpets and extra instruments.

Situated at Paris’ famed Carré du Louvre, the trend home transformed the location into a supersized toy racetrack that featured abundant neon hues, a yellow brick road-like runway and huge Louis Vuitton symbol-printed red balloons.

“‘Strange Math’ a cinematic prelude to the future #LouisVuitton Men’s show explores the relationship concerning creativity and truth,” the brand captioned a video clip shot overhead of the band executing.

Reflecting on his working experience in advance of the exhibit, FAMU drum key/subject commander Jadon Roberts advised ABC News that he was far more than fired up to be a aspect of it all. “This has been a single of the most astounding ordeals I have ever had in my lifetime,” he claimed.

Roberts additional, “Having to work with Louis Vuitton, there was a ton expected of us, so we’ve experienced a whole lot of tricky rehearsals, a lot of tricky work set in, but we always increase to the situation.”

Typically touted as the “greatest marching band in the land,” FAMU’s Marching 100 has also dominated a range of other major affairs like the Tremendous Bowl, the Summer season Olympics and the inaugural parades of equally presidents Clinton as very well as Obama.

“The HBCU band society is something else,” reported Roberts. “It truly is a thing you can only get at an HBCU. The culture is different. We dance, we go, we perform and just like to provide the vitality.”

“We have certainly noticed above the previous few a long time a rising fascination all about the environment — that society of marching band practical experience. We saw it with Beyoncé at Coachella, we see it in films and Television set exhibits. So, we focus in this, and we’re very pleased to do it. We be expecting to get a lot more invites like this and far more curiosity to develop in this type of marching band,” he additional.

The victorious HBCU band hails from Tallahassee, Florida and was started in 1946.

Due to the fact its beginnings, the band has been credited with 30 ground breaking strategies that have come to be conventional functioning treatments for lots of substantial college and collegiate marching band applications.

In addition to FAMU’s overall performance, rapper Kendrick Lamar also performed music from his not too long ago launched “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” as a tribute to the late Virgil Abloh who was Louis Vuitton’s previous creative director of menswear.