Virgil Abloh is an American creative designer, DJ, and the founder of the Milan-based fashion label Off-White.
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Early Life
Virgil Abloh was born in 1980. Abloh's parents are from Ghana. He has a nephew in Australia; Rafid. He is from the ewe tribe from the Volta Region in Ghana. He was raised in Rockford, Illinois where he attended Boylan Catholic High School. He received his Masters of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and his undergraduate in Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Career
Abloh was the art director for the 2011 Jay-Z / Kanye West album Watch the Throne, for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. In Chicago, 2009, Kanye and Virgil interned at Fendi Roma before launching Pyrex Vision, the idea that would soon push Abloh into the spotlight and would influence him to produce the high-end streetwear brand, Off-White. Abloh stated, Pyrex "wasn't made to be a clothing brand" so it was discontinued after just one year.
See also
- A Bathing Ape
- Billionaire Boys Club
- Opening Ceremony
- OVO
- Chrome Hearts
- Highsnobiety
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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