EDITOR’S LETTER

I have been avoiding sitting down to write this letter to acknowledge the tragic loss of Virgil Abloh, aged just 41. Doing justice to his impact and life is difficult.

Virgil was very close with our fashion director Christine Centenera. They met working on sets and collaborating with Kanye West. Before Virgil was appointed artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear, we sat down for lunch in Milan in 2017. He