In 2018, shortly after Virgil Abloh's debut collection as artistic director for menswear at Louis Vuitton, the designer posted an image of himself to Instagram, standing on the rainbow-colored runway that he had commissioned as a nod to The Wizard of Oz. The caption beneath the post read, simply, "you can do it too...".As a gesture, it perfectly encapsulated the ethos that defined Abloh, who has died at 41 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was, fundamentally, a designer who wanted to create...
In 2018, shortly after Virgil Abloh's debut collection as artistic director for menswear at Louis Vuitton, the designer posted an image of himself to Instagram, standing on the rainbow-colored runway that he had commissioned as a nod to The Wizard of Oz. The caption beneath the post read, simply, "you can do it too...".As a gesture, it perfectly encapsulated the ethos that defined Abloh, who has died at 41 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was, fundamentally, a designer who wanted to create...
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