![]() It's honestly a beautiful dress but, at the moment, it, unfortunately, doesn't fit the style of wedding we are planning anymore. Selling it as myself and my partner decided to do a simpler and more casual wedding after Covid happened and we needed to cancel our ceremony twice because of the pandemic. My inspiration and motivation is more the humanity level.” Words to live by for whomever takes over the Off-White pilot seat.Brand new dress size 8 purchased at White Runway in December 2019. At his last show before the pandemic in February 2020 Abloh said, “the ethos of Off-White is it’s not just clothes. Making good on Pharrell Williams’s point about sharing the codes, Off-White’s parent company New Guards Group streamed tonight’s show in 100 storefronts across Paris installed with TV monitors for the occasion: boutiques, barbershops, pharmacies, etc. ![]() The beats were provided by the DJ Jeff Mills, who, it can’t be any coincidence, is known as The Wizard (both The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz were among Alboh’s references at Louis Vuitton). And there was a more serious message, it would seem, about the health struggle Abloh kept so intensely private, in Cindy Crawford’s two handbags: one printed with MORE LIFE and another full of red and white pill capsules. There was a never worn 2020 Met Gala dress for Kylie Jenner. There was a self-portrait-The Verg-with an oversized jacket, baseball cap, sneakers, and sunglasses. There was an ode to his friend Sarah Jessica Parker-The Carrie B.-complete with an enormous shopping bag. Each of the 28 high fashion looks was extensively annotated, only not with the number of hours for this embroidery or that handmade veil or train, but with little backstories. At the time he said, “I get frustrated if I don’t feel an evolution, and the message becomes monotonous.” In retrospect, he may have been laying the groundwork for this new discipline.Īnd why not launch couture? Abloh wasn’t at a loss for ideas, as the extensive show program reminded us. ![]() ![]() Abloh presented his fall 2021 collection during the Paris haute couture shows last July. This show included not just Off-White’s fall 2022 ready-to-wear collection, but also a new high fashion line (haute couture without the haute couture appellation) “designed by Virgil and completed by the creative teams and collaborators with whom he worked,” the show program explained. The spaceship metaphor worked in more ways than one. Among the passengers: Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, Idris and Sabrina Elba, Pharrell Williams and his family, the CEOs of Louis Vuitton and New Guards Group, and a who’s who of designers including Jonathan Anderson, Olivier Rousteing, Matthew Williams, Guram Gvasalia, and Jerry Lorenzo. A ride on “Spaceship Earth,” as it was called. So it makes a sort of sense that since his sudden passing last November we’ve been visited by a drone kite and runway angels.Īfter two tributes to Abloh at Louis Vuitton-the first in Miami just two days after he died and the second here in Paris last month-this posthumous Off-White show registered more as a celebration. Virgil Abloh was fashion’s most frequent flyer, a multi-hyphenate creative director, DJ, architect, serial collaborator, and amplifier for the voices of the Black community.
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