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Virgil Abloh

American Designer

Born: Sep 30, 1980

Art Fashion Like Me Think You

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I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe. Virgil Abloh

Parents Saw Name Know Sure Got Maybe Where Movie

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his artistic language into today's world, choosing, for example, to use pedestrian-crossing stripes as a symbol. Virgil Abloh

Today World Language Example Starts Gave Everything Stripes Possibilities Case He New For Example Duchamp His Artistic Transferred Us Use Choosing Expressive Marcel Symbol

I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days. Virgil Abloh

Live Seven City Never Days Always Same Places Multiple

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists. Virgil Abloh

Collection Idea Like Artists Realized Fully

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us. Virgil Abloh

World Collection Inspired Around Doing Whenever Us

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse. Virgil Abloh

Love Game Aggressive Finesse About Touch Tennis Takes Powerful

I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi. Virgil Abloh

Overseeing Michael While

I hate being up onstage with a microphone. Virgil Abloh

Hate Onstage Up Microphone Being

I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion. Virgil Abloh

Fashion Believe About Between Intellectuals Romantic Interchange

My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that's your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know - you start designing by numbers. Virgil Abloh

You Clothes Everything About General Know Looks Goal End Selling Same Then Your Premise Sudden Start Designing Numbers

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them. Virgil Abloh

Music Me Architecture Made Consumed Studied Between Felt Always How Up Loved Them Who Gap Growing Growing Up Things

I don't play golf. Virgil Abloh

Golf Play Play Golf

I've been DJing since I was in high school. Virgil Abloh

School High High School Since Been

DJing is like a great tasteful art form. Virgil Abloh

Art Great Like Art Form Tasteful Form

My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context. Virgil Abloh

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was. Virgil Abloh

Education Care Kid Off Who Started

Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities. Virgil Abloh

You Achieve Big Scales Physical Vital Both Results Absolutely Terms Quantities Size Want Certain Working Productive Teams Larger

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me. Virgil Abloh

Freedom Me Ability Totally Inspiring Conceptual Aesthetic Been His

I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth. Virgil Abloh

Youth Geared Inspires Towards Brand Just Wanna Start

It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times. Virgil Abloh

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I suck at sleeping. Virgil Abloh

Sleeping Suck

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