“LIFE” VIRGIL
VOGUE India|February 2022
The Off-White founder and Louis Vuitton artistic director Virgil Abloh had an influence that ranged far beyond the world of fashion, writes Luke Leitch
Luke Leitch
“LIFE” VIRGIL
“I’ve been on this focus, in terms of my art and creativity, of getting adults to behave like children again. That they go back into this sense of wonderment—they start to stop using their mind and they start using their imagination.”

SHORTLY BEFORE 6PM on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Virgil Abloh’s voice came over the P.A. Approximately 1,500 of us had, at last, settled into our seats on the floating runway at the Miami Marine Stadium to the haunting opening notes of Mansur Brown’s ‘Want You’. (According to chatter backstage, the organisers at Louis Vuitton had been expecting only 600 guests, mostly local clients to celebrate the opening of a new Louis Vuitton men’s store, for what was essentially a high-end trunk show, entitled 7.2, which coincided with the Art Basel fair.) Just two days earlier, the news had hit us: Abloh, only 41, was dead.

After the immediate shock came action as, from far and wide, those whom Abloh had touched in his cut-short life scrambled to get to Miami. A near-full set of Arnaults, the family which oversees Louis Vuitton, was joined by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West (with their daughter North) reunited to pay their respects. Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, A$AP Rocky, Jonathan Anderson, Nigo, Silvia Venturini Fendi, Samuel Ross, Kerby Jean-Raymond, Bella Hadid, A$AP Ferg, Joan Smalls, and many others dropped everything to attend. It was a matter both of paying respects to a man and designer who opened so many doors for others, as well as being able to see with our own eyes a show that—because the door had slammed with such sudden cruelty on him—he had overseen until almost the very last.

この記事は VOGUE India の February 2022 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

この記事は VOGUE India の February 2022 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

VOGUE INDIAのその他の記事すべて表示
Breathe In, Breathe Out
VOGUE India

Breathe In, Breathe Out

A powerful tool to help you master your nervous system or another biohacking buzzword? SIMONE DHONDY explores the inhalations and exhalations of breathwork

time-read
4 分  |
November - December 2024
Red Pill, Blue Pill
VOGUE India

Red Pill, Blue Pill

India's nutraceutical industry is booming thanks to advanced technology, distrust of the medical system and rising vanity. With multivitamins becoming purer and more effective, NIDHI GUPTA finds out if supplements have become the new serum

time-read
4 分  |
November - December 2024
Sign of the times
VOGUE India

Sign of the times

No longer do you need to have an answer to, \"What is the significance of this?\" when people point to your new tattoo. ARMAN KHAN discovers that everything is on the table when you get inked temporarily

time-read
3 分  |
November - December 2024
Return to form
VOGUE India

Return to form

Watching the world's most elite athletes deliver the best performances of their careers rekindled SONAKSHI SHARMA's own love for sports

time-read
3 分  |
November - December 2024
Dimple, All Day
VOGUE India

Dimple, All Day

YOU MAY HAVE WATCHED HER ON THE BIG SCREEN FOR OVER FIVE DECADES, BUT DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF ASSUMING THAT YOU KNOW DIMPLE KAPADIA.

time-read
9 分  |
November - December 2024
MUSIC, TAKE CONTROL
VOGUE India

MUSIC, TAKE CONTROL

As someone who had always sought safety in numbers, ALIZA FATMA often wondered what her own company would feel like. The answer arrived unexpectedly when she attended her first-ever music festival, one of the largest in the world, all alone

time-read
3 分  |
November - December 2024
Let it grow
VOGUE India

Let it grow

When we think of hardworking farmers toiling in India's scorching heat, we often think of men, the sweat on their brow, the sinews in their arms. JYOTI KUMARI speaks to four women who are championing the invisible female labour that keeps these fields running

time-read
5 分  |
November - December 2024
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
VOGUE India

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

When armless archer Sheetal Devi set her sights on the Paralympic Games this year, she knew she had a tough journey ahead of her. Luckily, her mother was with her every step of the way.

time-read
5 分  |
November - December 2024
Beauty and the feast
VOGUE India

Beauty and the feast

The appeal of Indian weddings has always been in a sprawling spread. For additional bragging rights, Aditi Dugar recommends going beyond designer tablecloths and monogrammed napkins.

time-read
1 min  |
November - December 2024
Sweet serendipity
VOGUE India

Sweet serendipity

From a scavenger hunt-inspired proposal to a Moroccan-themed baraat, Malvika Raj and Armaan Rai's love story prioritised playfulness throughout their blended celebrations.

time-read
4 分  |
November - December 2024