Virgil Abloh and His Army of Disruptors
From Luka Sabbat and Heron Preston to Bella Hadid and Kanye West, Virgil Abloh is fashion’s most connected man. “Virgil can slip into a celebrity entourage and also have a really serious conversation with an architect. Not many people can bridge those worlds,” says the graphic designer Michael Rock. Here, a look back at Abloh’s hyperlinked career.
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Virgil Abloh, in Louis Vuitton, with Studio Job’s 2014 sculpture Cat Fight.
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Virgil Abloh (bottom right), at one of his favorite design galleries, the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, in Paris, surrounded by some of his friends and collaborators (clockwise, from top right): Acyde, Christina Paik, Tremaine Emory, Guillaume Berg, Adriana Mora, Luka Sabbat, and Arthur Karakoumouchian. Mora, Sabbat, and Paik wear clothes from the Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh fall 2017 collection; Abloh wears a hoodie from the same collection. The table is by the Dutch design duo Studio Job.
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A fashion shoot styled by Virgil Abloh in the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe. Photographed by Fabien Montique for a forthcoming book by Abloh of short stories through images.
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A denim look from the Off-White Spring 2015 season.
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Virgil Abloh and Ian Connor walk the runway after the Off-White ‘You Cut Me Off’ Menswear Fall/Winter 2016-2017 show as part of Paris Fashion Week, January 2016.
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Bella Hadid walks the runway during the Off-White show during Paris Fashion Week Fall 2017.
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Kris Jenner, Kanye West and Virgil Abloh at the Balmain Fall 2016 show in Paris.
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Behind the scenes with Virgil Abloh.
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Abloh acknowledges the audience during the Off-White show as part of Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2016/2017 on March 8, 2016 in Paris, France.
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Virgil Abloh and muse, Luka Sabbat, attend Chrome Hearts X Bella Hadid Collaboration Launch as part of Paris Fashion Week at Chrome Hearts on March 5, 2017 in Paris, France.
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Virgil Abloh and Bella Hadid attend Chrome Hearts X Bella Hadid Collaboration Launch as part of Paris Fashion Week at Chrome Hearts on March 4, 2017 in Paris, France.
