月別アーカイブ: Jan 20th, 2022

The original text was written in Japanese and published on FASHIONSNAP.COM on January 20, 2022. This post is translated from the original article. Virgil Abloh has passed away. At the age of 41, he passed away in the midst of his glory days as the men’s artistic director of “LOUIS VUITTO …

Virgil Abloh has passed away. At the age of 41, he passed away in the midst of his glory days as the men’s artistic director of “LOUIS VUITTON. He emerged in the mid-2010s as the creative director of OFF-WHITE c/o VIRGIL ABLOH™. Numerous reviews have been written about Virgil in various countries and forms. However, I would like to revisit his achievements and progress again, considering what hints for the future can be gleaned from his rapid emergence in the mid-2010s and the phenomena surrounding him for the year 2022. Especially on the words “anti-typecasting” and “street extended to the internet”.

In this article, especially on attempts by minorities to create in defiance of typecasting, we will reevaluate Virgil Abloh, who died at the age of 41, and his meteoric rise in the mid-2010s, and consider what clues from his and Kanye West’s phenomenon of street-to-Internet expansion should offer for future minority creators. This is a contributed article to FASHIONSNAP.COM. The English version is on our blog: “VIRGIL ABLOH AND KANYE WEST: WALKING THE STREETS EXTENDED TO THE INTERNET”