One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, will posthumously publish 'Work in Progress,' a book Virgil Abloh began writing before his death in 2021.
co-authored by the late, visionary Off-White founder and artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton and Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, founder and editor-in-chief ofwill be a “hybrid work that combines cultural criticism, theory, art, and personal narrative,” according to the publisher. It does not yet have a publication date.
“In the last few years before his passing, Abloh sought refuge in intellectual, theoretical, and imaginative conversations with Aronowsky Cronberg about his work,” One World toldis the culmination of their dialogue, a book that illuminates the ideas behind Abloh’s astonishing process and practice.
Aronowsky Cronberg said she and Abloh began working on the book several years ago. “We based it on the conversations we were having: in person, over the phone, via emails, in message threads. We talked about Virgil’s process and ‘logic,’ and about ideas central to his practice: irony and earnestness, hybridity, paradox, the value of originality, and the policing of ‘good’ taste,” she told.
Following Abloh’s death at age 41 last November, Aronowsky Cronberg is drawing on extensive recorded conversations with the designer to complete, with “the full support of his wife, Shannon Abloh, access to his archives, and the participation of his most trusted creative collaborators and friends,” One World said in a statement. “is a portrait of an iconoclast, an intellectual biography as bold and experimental as its subject.
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