Virgil Abloh has died at the age of 41. Read carlstwitt's 2017 profile of the designer here
Virgil Abloh died Sunday at the age of 41 after a long fight with a rare form of cancer. In early 2017, Carl Swanson wrote this profile of the groundbreaking designer.
Abloh — not unlike his mentor, West — sees himself as a kind of outsider insurgent, but fluent in business-school lingo: Last fall, he told the Business of Fashion website that “The end goal is to modernise fashion and steer a [fashion] house, because I believe in the modernisation of these storied brands” calling Off-White a “case study.” And now he is reportedly a finalist to take over for Riccardo Tisci at the helm of the storied LVMH-owned brand Givenchy.
Bruce Pask, men’s-fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman, remembers hosting an event for Off-White. The store was thronged with young people. “ ‘Oh, I’m going to hang with my kids,’ ” he recalls Abloh saying. “They feel the honesty in it,” Pask says. When one of the kids couldn’t afford to buy an Off-White T-shirt, Abloh took a Sharpie to the shirt the kid was wearing and wrote THIS IS AN OFF-WHITE T-SHIRT on it.
His college roommate and future best man, Gabriel Stulman, now a Manhattan restaurateur , recalls Abloh arriving at school with a set of DJ turntables. He “devoured magazines” like GQ and wasn’t afraid of wearing colors: “He had this Ralph Lauren leather jacket in college with a lion’s head emblazoned on the back and two neon-orange stripes,” Stulman recalls. “I would try to wear it, and it wouldn’t look right on me.” Plus, “He was always great at accessorizing.
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