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...“I want to be Virgil,” he says, “not Dante.”...
...Virgil and Euripides made the case for her execution; Ovid and Dante damned her to hell....
...Good for you, Ferdinand: visiting bullfighters despaired of peaceful Ferdinand under his cork oak, until suddenly he was stung by a bee....
...Ivy bees are one of the types of biodiversity that thrive in mown grass: a good guess is that the soil beneath a lawn is warmer when they mature and are preparing to emerge....
...A long list of New York-based designers have ended up selling to one of the European groups, including Marc Jacobs, Thom Browne, Donna Karan and Virgil Abloh’s Off-White....
...Louis Vuitton has appointed the musician Pharrell Williams to take over menswear design following the death of Virgil Abloh....
...I remember reading Virgil in college and being utterly moved by pastoral poetry....
...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....
...Letter in response to this report: Virgil’s oft-quoted quip about Greeks and gifts / From Professor Costas Milas, Management School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK...
...Virgil, in the Aeneid, borrowed from Greek epic forms to create a foundational story for the Romans....
...It’s an unusual thing to say about a luxury goods company, but chimes back to Vuitton’s ubiquity, and its resonance across culture....
...“Think of the 2015 Gucci revival, and the fortunes of Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh.”...
...“We started quite underground and we like to freak people out so it’s good to have a new audience,” said the designers backstage....
...At 21, he was “discovered” on Instagram by the polymath Virgil Abloh, who took him on as an intern and then design assistant, where he worked on projects for Yeezy, Abloh’s own label Off-White, Hood By Air...
...“Amandine is a bit hyperactive with school, friends, music, singing, violin and now hula hoop… plus watchmaking and Instagram,” says her father while, like any good executive assistant, he juggles her diary...
...Fashion is an interplay of fantasy and reality — the fantasy of the catwalk show versus the reality of small leather goods and accessories sales fuelling multibillion-euro turnovers for brands....
...Likewise, Virgil Abloh, the fashion designer who last weekend died from cancer; a true disrupter in the business who was only 41 years old....
...The best bit of advice I ever received was “Each one, teach one” which Virgil [Abloh] said to me, meaning what you have, share it with another person. And never try and reason with madness....
...Read more about Virgil Abloh....
...menswear for the Louis Vuitton brand since 2018, infusing lines with a mix of sportswear and tailoring that had won praise, had been promoted in July to a broader role within the world’s biggest luxury goods...
...“It’s all good if you don’t get it yet. It’s all good,” he announced after the album’s surprise release. “That’s what we do. We wait for you to catch up.”...
...I do: good fortune and “higher learning”....
...It was good that they did carry on, because it was a standout season....
...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!”...
...That’s how I got to know Kanye and Virgil and gave them a chance.”...
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