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Virgil Abloh Photo: Bogdan Plakov; Autumn Winter 2019 Off-White Womenswear Runway Show

The designer and DJ died on Nov. 28, 2021 after a private two-year battle with cancer. Look back at Abloh's meteoric rise, from Fendi intern to founder of genre-defining label Off-White to the first Black artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear

The late designer identified with the Black condition and set about designing not just products but a better future, writes Jason Campbell.

CROSSING lines, climbing hills, entering unknown gates, looping downwards, into the expanse, to fly in the air. Echoing the course of a paper plane, the clip that opens Virgil Abloh’s last show for Louis Vuitton follows a young boy on a journey of discovery, in an innocent and inviting display of imagination. As the clip

Idris Elba also paid tribute to late designer Virgil Abloh at The Fashion Awards 2021 by reciting Maya Angelou's poem 'When Great Trees Fall.'

Virgil Abloh Is Skipping Off-White’s Spring 2020 Show