Virgil Abloh, who rose from American streetwear savant to become the artistic director of menswear for Louis Vuitton and a guru to millions with his own label, Off-White, has died at 41
Photo: Pierre Suu/Getty Images Virgil Abloh, who rose from American streetwear savant to become the artistic director of men’s wear for Louis Vuitton, and guru to millions with his own label, Off-White, died on Sunday, according to a notice published on his Instagram account. He had been privately battling cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare cancer of the heart, since 2019. He was 41 years old.
Abloh, a first-generation Ghanian-American who had been the creative director to his friend and collaborator Kanye West, was that rare thing in fashion: a name-brand designer, whose influence was felt outside of fashion’s usual self-selected niches, a veritable pop-culture icon.
Bernard Arnault, the CEO of LVMH, the group that owns Louis Vuitton, said in a statement on Sunday that Virgil was “not only a genius designer and a great visionary, he was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom.
Abloh’s survivors include his wife, Shannon Abloh; his children, Lowe and Grey; his sister, Edwina Abloh, and his parents, Nee and Eunice Abloh. Louis Vuitton had been planning a men’s runway show in Miami to take place this Tuesday, one of a series of nomadic, one-off shows, as part of the Art Basel fair and to commemorate the opening of a new boutique. At press time, there was no indication whether the show would proceed.
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