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Virgil Abloh
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Virgil Abloh (1980–2021) was an American designer, disc jockey, personal stylist, and civil engineer. Born in Rockford, Illinois, he studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Illinois Institute of Technology. His professional career began in 2011 and concluded with his death in Chicago on November 28, 2021, from angiosarcoma. He was the owner of Off-White and worked as an employee for Louis Vuitton.
Abloh received recognition including The Fashion Awards and inclusion in the Time 100 collection. His works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Centraal Museum, and Kunstmuseum Den Haag. As an author, he published nine works, including *Work in Progress*, *Virgil Abloh*, *Futura Deluxe Edition*, *Vngrd*, and *Abloh-Isms*. He had two children.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Work in Progress
- Virgil Abloh
- Futura Deluxe Edition
- Vngrd
- Abloh-Isms
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Film & TV
Acting · Rockford, Illinois, USA
Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. He was the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection beginning in 2018, and was given increased creative responsibilities across the LVMH brand in early 2021. Abloh began his own line of streetwear clothing, Pyrex Vision, in 2012, and became the CEO of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2013.
Known for
- In Whose Name? — Self2025
- Virgil Abloh: How To Be Both — Self (archive footage)2023
- Virgil Was Here — Self (voice) (archive footage)2022
- Colette, Mon Amour — Self2020
- Des hommes stylés — Self2018
- Paris Is for Lovers — Himself2017
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians — Self2007
- "TEMPERATURE"
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1980
- Active to
- 2021
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,499
- Total plays
- 39,311
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Virgil+Abloh">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,992x
- A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects.
· 2002 · cited 6,961x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,183x
- Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 3,907x
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Quotes
- “Fashion is one of the greatest vehicles to merge music, art, architecture, design, typography... It’s a wide enough canvas, or a big enough sandbox, to touch all the different things that I’m into.”
- “You know my style of clothing is basically a discourse between me and the kids. That’s what the premise of the brand is... We’re talking straight to the market. But I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1980-09-30 ) September 30, 1980, Rockford, Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- November 28, 2021 (2021-11-28) (aged 41), Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Education
- University of Wisconsin–Madison ( BS ) Illinois Institute of Technology ( MArch )
- Occupations
- Designer entrepreneur disc jockey
- Years active
- 2009–2021
- Title
- Founder and CEO of Off-White Artistic Director of menswear at Louis Vuitton Creative Director of Donda
- Spouse
- Shannon Sundberg ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Virgil Abloh Archive – Canary Yellow
Canary Yellow™ [Art Store] is an experimental retail concept founded by Virgil Abloh in 2019 for releases from his personal archive and independent design studio.
canary---yellow.com →Link to the official site · 4,317 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rockford
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- architect
- Employer
- Off-White
- Award
- The Fashion Awards
- Official website
- canary---yellow.com
- Image
- Virgil Abloh Paris Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2019 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1980-09-30
- Commons category
- Virgil Abloh
- start of work period
- 2011-00-00
- social media followers
- 516441
- date of death
- 2021-11-28
- end of work period
- 2021-00-00
- cause of death
- cancer
- name in native language
- Virgil Abloh
- manner of death
- natural causes
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
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Encyclopedic overview
Virgil Abloh (/ˈæbloʊ/; September 30, 1980 – November 28, 2021) was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transformed into the Milan based fashion label Off-White in 2013. Abloh was appointed artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection beginning in 2018 and was given increased creative responsibilities across the LVMH brand in early 2021. Abloh worked in Chicago street fashion before he entered the world of international fashion with an internship at Fendi in 2009, alongside American rapper Kanye West. Abloh assumed the role of creative director at Donda, West's creative agency in 2010.
Abloh joined LVMH in 2018, where he became the first African-American artistic director of a French luxury fashion house. He was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world that year. Abloh's design aesthetic, which bridged streetwear and luxury clothing, was described as transformative by The New York Times. According to The Wall Street Journal, he reached a level of global fame unusual for a designer, and as an influential figure, according to the BBC.
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