Virgil Abloh was an American designer, entrepreneur, and DJ who has been the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection since March 2018. Abloh was also the chief executive officer of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2012. He passed away due to cancer. He was 41 years old.
LVMH made the following statement on twitter.
Born in Rockford, Illinois (U.S.A.) in 1980, Virgil Abloh is an artist, architect, and fashion designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he obtained a master’s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It was at the Illinois Institute of Technology where Abloh was introduced to a curriculum established by Mies van der Rohe, formed from the notions of Bauhaus, that taught him to combine the fields of art, craft and design. These theories, merged with contemporary culture, make up Abloh’s inter-disciplinary practice today.
