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Today in Focus

How designer Virgil Abloh transformed fashion

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The visionary black designer revolutionised the way we dress. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, the visionary black designer, Virgil Ablo,

0:13.0

and how he revolutionized fashion.

0:25.0

The archetype of designer is changing with the times.

0:29.0

Virgil Ablo was a disruptor.

0:31.0

The son of Garnayian immigrant parents to the US,

0:34.0

who studied engineering and architecture at university.

0:37.0

But he took the fashion world by storm in the last decade.

0:41.0

First with Offwhite, a brand that helped redefine luxury fashion

0:45.0

to include chic hoodies and highly coveted sneakers.

0:50.0

And later, as a head of menswear at Louis Vuitton.

0:53.0

Like for some reason, I want to see this cut here.

0:56.0

Something interesting.

0:58.0

Okay, let me work for it.

1:04.0

A DJ, a designer, a polymath.

1:08.0

Ablo's creative energy seemed limitless.

1:11.0

That means that the archetype of designer with the capital D,

1:16.0

artist with the capital A, architect with the capital A,

1:19.0

is changing.

1:21.0

If I exist as a model for a type of design,

1:26.0

a new way of thinking, a way that it relates to the people,

1:29.0

then we can actually lead by example.

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