On Tuesday night, our colleague Jacob Gallagher, who covers fashion, went to a Louis Vuitton

event in Miami.

This event was a fashion show, but it also became an impromptu memorial for the man who designed

the collection, Virgil Oblowe.

He died at the age of 41 just days earlier.

The news of his death, A-list celebrities flew in from all over.

Kanye West was there, Kim Kardashian West was there, you know, there was Ferrell Sennhecks

to Kanye, DJ Khaled, rappers like 21 Savage and Gunna, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

were there.

It was really a kind of mind-boggling roster of celebrities.

And in recent days, tributes to Oblowe have been pouring in, like from LeBron James.

You know, Virgil, you know, he brought to the table his flared his style, his swag,

you see, you know, the bodies of a lot of people, you know, got like those legs he would

have all so.

And Idris Elba.

The fashion industry, we lost an icon and the world we lost a very, very special human

being.

Oblowe was artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton.

He was the first black American to hold the top creative role at a major luxury label.

And through his career, he challenged the fashion industry to take black style more

seriously.

And Virgil, Oblowe was probably the designer that was best at translating street fashion

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