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Designer
Virgil Abloh
Virgil Abloh was born in Rockford, Illinois. He earned a degree in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master's degree in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he studied a design…
Biography
Background
Virgil Abloh was born in Rockford, Illinois. He earned a degree in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master's degree in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he studied a design curriculum devised by Mies van der Rohe. The MCA Chicago lists him as American, born in 1980.
Signature Style
Cassina lists many roles for him, among them artist, architect, engineer, creative director, industrial and fashion designer, musician and DJ. His practice crossed fashion, music, art and design, and the MCA connects artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers and architects in his work.
Notable Works
- Off-White, the fashion brand he founded in Milan in 2013
- Men's Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton from 2018
- Figures of Speech, the 2019 MCA Chicago survey of his work
- Modular Imagination for Cassina, begun in 2020
Legacy
Abloh died in November 2021. The Virgil Abloh Archive holds over 20,000 objects from his creative practice, and Cassina lists Modular Imagination as part of its I Contemporanei series.
