James Franco, Pharrell Williams, Thom Browne and Damien Hirst Sell Arty Collectibles at Art Basel Drive-Thru pop-up at the parking garage adjacent to Alchemist. MIAMI BEACH - Pharrell Williams's bulletproof vest might not stop a snowflake. But that's fine with Mr. Williams, who stopped at Art Basel Miami Beach last week to take in the art fairs and hawk a few wares of his own. His channel-quilted vests ($1,495) and mirrored shades ($595), created in collaboration with Moncler, were selling at a good clip at the Colette Art Drive-Thru, a pop-up installation by the influential Parisian retailer and the Alchemist shops on Lincoln Road here. John Parra/Getty Images (Williams) From left: Pharrell Williams at the Colette Art Drive-Thru pop-up; Items included his puffer vest, right, created in collaboration with Moncler. His puffer vests are bulletproof in name only, Mr. Williams was prompt to note: "All I was trying to do was utilize the silhouette." Down replaced the customary Kevlar filling, since no suggestion of violence was intended, he said. The vests were among the novelties drawing deep-pocketed visitors to the Herzog & de Meuron-designed parking garage adjacent to Alchemist, a high-end fashion outpost refashioned last week as a midcentury drive-in. As the week progressed, shoppers snapped up not burgers and fries but arty collectibles by Zaha Hadid, Damien Hirst, Thom Browne and James Franco, among others, placing their orders on computer screens and retrieving them from scantily outfitted carhops on skates. Trophy hunters picked the installation clean of Ai Weiwei silk scarves ($195), Olympia Le Tan-Damien Hirst clutches embroidered with Mr. Hirst's signature dots and alphabet letters ($1,935); a José Parlá Bamford Rolex watch, with Mr. Parlá"s artwork on the face ($27,500); and $45 T-shirts by Chrome Hearts, to name but a handful of offerings. Mr. Williams himself was as potent a draw as the wares. Reedily elegant in a fedora, hoodie and jeans, he posed obligingly for cellphone snaps and chatted with visitors. Moncler, for whom he created an earlier version of the bulletproof vest, is not the only luxury brand to have tapped him for his taste, he said. A previous partnership with Louis Vuitton spawned a collection of Williams-conceived jewelry and sunglasses. An avid collector of furnishings by Christian Liaigre and artworks by Keith Haring and Brian Donnelly (the Brooklyn artist known as KAWS), Mr. Williams is continually training his eye. "I am a voyeur," he said. My sense of style is an amalgamation of the things that I admire. His talents and interests, he said, "are not necessarily associated with people of my persuasion." Coyly, he added, "I'm talking about musicians, of course."