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Off-White for Magazine VIRGIL ABLOH Rockford, Illinois USA c. 2020 TM
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Virgil is one of the most influencial artists of the current day in my opinion, the take of typography is so simple yet so so effective. The font ‘’Helvetica’’ is used with all capital letters with quotation marks surrounding the word. This is Virgils signature way of showing a quote or a singular word. You don’t become Kanye’s creative director by sitting on your ass. Virgil studied the teachings of Mies van der Rohe and got a master’s in architecture before embarking
on his own endeavors in fashion, music and art. Now he’s the founding designer at streetwear megabrand OffWhite, co-owns Chicago concept shop RSVP Gallery, DJs worldwide under the moniker Flat White, and serves as curator-in-chief to Yeezy himself. He aspires to take the helm at a big name fashion label at some point down the road, but for the moment it sounds like he’s got his hands full. Speaking of which, dude fucking loves his iPhone.
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E PAGE Virgil Abloh was born on September 30, 1980, in Rockford, Illinois, to Ghanaian immigrant parents. His mother was a seamstress and his father managed a paint company. Abloh was raised in Rockford, where he attended Boylan Catholic High School, graduating in 1998. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He received his Master of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of
Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2006. When Abloh was attending IIT there was a building on campus under construction designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas which helped spark his interests for fashion. While studying architecture, he designed t-shirts and wrote on fashion and design for a well known blog, The Brilliance. Abloh first met popular musician Kanye West while working on his designs at a Chicago print shop. Kanye is a famous Rap artist from the USA.
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Off-White for Magazine VIRGIL ABLOH Rockford, Illinois USA c. 2020 TM
Off-White x Nike
This 10 piece collection is broken down into two halves; both having their own identity and aesthetic whilst still baring resemblances between them for a continuing theme throughout. The first half of the collection entitled ʻRevealingʼ consists of the Air Jordan 1, Air Presto, Air VaporMax, Air Max 90 and Blazer. This half of the collection
taining the 20-year survey that explores the hand pivotal momentʼs of cut feel Ablohʼs career alongside fashto the ion, furniture, music, design, and design. The graphics, the latest iteration of “Figures of second half of the collection is Speech” expands the previous, incorpocalled ʻGhostingʼ due to the transrating new works and additional commulucent uppers used across all of nity works by Brendan Fowler, Caramel the silhouettes, including: the Bobby, and Tremaine Emory. Throughout Converse Chuck Taylor, Nike the updated exhibition, Abloh continues Zoom Fly SP, Nike Air Force 1 to exemplify dialogue — he highLow, Nike React Hyperdunk 2017 lights his inventive use of and Nike Air Max 97.Nike and language and quotation Virgil Ablohʼs Off-White extend marks, further turning their collaborative quest to reimaobjects and clothing gine Nikeʼs most iconic silhouettes. he has designed The ground-breaking Nike Air over the VaporMax X Off-White relaunches years. in white with a clean, transparent VaporMax Air-Sole unit, reflecting Virgilʼs design ethos.
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Throughout the updated exhibition, Abloh continues to exemplify dialogue — he highlights his tain- inventive use of language ing the and quotation marks, 20-year further turning survey that objects and explores the pivotal clothing he momentʼs of Ablohʼs has career alongside fashion, defurniture, music, design, and sig graphics, the latest iteration of “Figures of Speech” expands the previous, incorporating new works and additional community works by Brendan Fowler, Caramel Bobby, and Trem ai
Art in Atlanta. deems “figures of speech.” Take a look at the exhibition via the gallery above. Itʼs currently on display.
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