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...Long-rumoured to be in the running to replace the late Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton, she has hardly been held up by losing out on the gig to Pharrell Williams....
...“Virgil passed away the day before it opened,” says Ross of his mentor Virgil Abloh, the Chicagoan who trained as an architect and became the first African-American artistic director at Louis Vuitton....
...Louis Vuitton, the flagship brand of Bernard Arnault’s LVMH group, has appointed music producer and streetwear designer Pharrell Williams to take over menswear design following the death of Virgil Abloh....
...In February, Williams was unexpectedly appointed creative director of the brand’s menswear, a post that had been empty since the death of his predecessor, Virgil Abloh, in November 2021....
...“Virgil loved that conversation between the two worlds — the old money versus the new, the tradition versus the hype,” he recalls....
...Louis Vuitton has appointed the musician Pharrell Williams to take over menswear design following the death of Virgil Abloh....
...But it had great success with the appointment of Virgil Abloh to the role now occupied by Williams....
...His only prime-age world-class players are centre-back Virgil van Dijk and central midfielder Frenkie de Jong....
...And yet it – like its close cousin, Ivy League – has instead proved ripe grounds for appropriation, as black creatives such as the late Virgil Abloh or Grace Wales Bonner have taken its codes and spread...
...After Dutch coach Louis van Gaal surprised everyone by picking him for Qatar, Noppert half-joked to a friend: “They’ve all fallen for it!”...
...“We’ve been working with Virgil throughout his time at Vuitton, we have lots of ideas we’d been working on that we never got to do....
...He is carrying a Louis Vuitton holdall – a tiny nod to his former employer, the late Virgil Abloh, who appointed Ross to be his first design assistant on the fashion brand Pyrex Vision and Kanye West’s design...
...“Think of the 2015 Gucci revival, and the fortunes of Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh.”...
...Take the late Virgil Abloh, he says. “He was a master of making the story make sense... So we’ve got to figure that out. But we ain’t got that much time!”...
...Louis Vuitton camcorder-bag, anyone?...
...Louis Vuitton’s presentation of the last collection designed before the death of men’s artistic director Virgil Abloh in November was, by default, the attention-grabber, for right and wrong reasons....
...On Tuesday night in Miami, Louis Vuitton staged “Virgil Was Here”, an outdoor showing of its already-revealed spring/summer 2022 collection, held with the blessing of Abloh’s family....
...“Virgil was not only a friend, great collaborator, creative genius, visionary and disrupter, but also one of the best cultural communicators of our times,” Louis Vuitton chief executive Michael Burke, who...
...The schedule went ahead as planned on Monday when Off-White showed the last collection designed by founder Virgil Abloh before his death from a rare cancer in November....
...The trio also designed new pieces for Louis Vuitton, previewed at the French fashion house’s colour-saturated installation on Via Bagutta....
...houses including Chanel and Louis Vuitton, and appearing on the cover of American Vogue in 2017....
...When Gorden Wagener, chief design officer of Mercedes-Benz, first paid a visit to Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton’s headquarters in Paris there was a small hitch....
...Now, two months after the death of Virgil Abloh (LV’s artistic director of menswear since 2018) Sotheby’s New York will auction 200 limited-edition pairs, all proceeds from which will go to the Virgil Abloh...
...“It’s no different than Virgil at Louis [Vuitton] and also doing Off White and other things,” he asserts. “I wouldn’t have taken the job if I wouldn’t be able to continue to do them.”...
...Ross remained close to Abloh, last speaking to the late Louis Vuitton menswear designer the day before he died in November 2021....
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