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...“I want to be Virgil,” he says, “not Dante.”...
...Prince Gyasi is the first black photographer to do so. “Prince is an amazing artist, a futurist and someone who has got so much love for the world,” says Idris Elba. “I’m so proud of him.”...
...“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....
...A remarkable array of artists have been commissioned to respond to the work, including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mimmo Jodice, Dozie Kanu and Virgil Abloh....
...She is also fascinating on the historical construction of such core western texts as the Iliad and the Aeneid — the latter of which is represented in a diverse, multicultural reading, with Virgil championing...
...Set in modern-day small-town Mississippi, the trilogy explores extraordinary moments of humanity and cruelty amid the ordinariness of life for poor black men, women and children....
...Think Karl Lagerfeld in the ’70s with his customised black-painted Audemars Piguet Royal Oak or the late Virgil Abloh with his all-black Patek Philippe Nautilus....
...I remember reading Virgil in college and being utterly moved by pastoral poetry....
...A small, warm presence, Rose sits in a swivel chair at her desk, dressed in a faded black T-shirt, camouflage combats and black Nike trainers, various pieces of smart gold jewellery on her fingers and wrists...
...“It’s not lost on me that they have given this position to another American black male. A black man. Another black person. That’s an honour,” Williams says, earnestly. “This is not a job....
...In response to the BLM movement, there has been enthusiastic championing of black figurative art and appointments of black directors of art spaces....
...Over centuries, the island cropped up in stories from Virgil and the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Arabian Nights. Tales spread of its dragon blood trees, whose sap ran red....
...To Abloh, the “Air Force 1” project wasn’t simply about tapping into the lucrative sneaker market, but to highlight and celebrate the black subcultures that conceived these ideas....
...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...
...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....
...All change at the top brands Bottega Veneta, Bally, Missoni, Salvatore Ferragamo, Etro and Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh all came under new creative direction this year, with Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy...
...He also expanded his philanthropic efforts, establishing the Virgil Abloh “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund in 2020 for fashion students of black, African-American or African descent....
...He preferred to point to app-enabled small appliances before making the big reveal: a new take on cutlery by the late Virgil Abloh, in collaboration with his London-based design studio Alaska Alaska, conjuring...
...“Think of the 2015 Gucci revival, and the fortunes of Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh.”...
...“What is my library of Russian literature, cinema and philosophy doing here, in the midst of Theaster’s Black aesthetic space?...
...The last thing I bought and loved was a black handbag by Loewe – it’s moon-shaped with a branded strap – and an incredible yellow puffer by a young new designer called Yeboah....
...“Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund for black fashion students....
...“Virgil’s passing remains inconceivable to me,” said Burke. “I considered him like a son.”...
...He entered in a dramatic black and champagne sequin dress with spiked shoulders — “Richard Quinn bespoke, bitches,” he quipped — and platform boots in black patent leather, changing later into a dress by...
...It has been 10 months since Virgil Abloh died from a rare heart cancer, and Louis Vuitton has yet to announce his replacement as artistic director for menswear....
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