“Everything I do is for the 17-year-old version of myself”
VIRGIL ABLOH
30 September 1980 – 28 November 2021
It’s a strange truth that it is only when someone has left the cultural landscape that we truly appreciate how great a force they really were. In the void they leave behind, their presence and the shape and scale of the creative ground they covered become clear. Virgil Abloh had a monumental impact on culture, yet it was almost as if his relentless work ethic, the level of his invention and his expanding artistic practice were expected. Virgil would be in London for only one day to visit Alaska Alaska c/o Virgil Abloh, his architecture and design studio, on his way to the Louis Vuitton offices in Paris to oversee the new collection. He would take the opportunity to DJ in Brixton that very same night and maybe that afternoon also pay a visit
