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André 3000 Fronts Moncler’s Re/Icons Campaign — With Unreleased Music in the Film

André 3000 is the face of Moncler’s new Re/Icons campaign, photographed by Gabriel Moses. The campaign, reported by Complex and Hypebeast on November 9 and detailed on Moncler’s official Re/Icons page, expands a collection that Cher fronted last month — and it puts one of hip-hop’s most distinctive style figures at the centre of a major fashion moment.

The concept was André’s own idea. Rather than posing in a single look, he wears and carries a pile of pieces at once, layered and stacked until the clothes themselves become the image. In the campaign film, he is perched on a chalk mountain, a surreal setting that turns that pile of Moncler into a landscape of its own.

The message behind the image is simple and very André: “Don’t just follow a path. Create your own mountains.” It is a line about making your own way rather than following the route someone else laid out — a fitting idea for an artist who has spent his career refusing to be filed into one lane, in music or in fashion.

There is another reason fans will be watching the film closely: it features unreleased music from André 3000. New music from André, in any form, is an event in itself, and hearing it inside a Moncler campaign film makes the release feel less like an advert and more like a first listen.

Moncler’s Re/Icons campaign is built on that kind of crossover — fashion figures and cultural icons reframing a classic collection in their own image. With André at its centre, carrying the clothes, the concept and the unreleased music with him, this instalment feels less like a modelling job and more like a portrait of how he sees the world: build your own mountain, then stand on top of it.

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