Biography
In the 20s of December 2019, the well-known American fashion designer Virgil Ablo literally stood up with the news - in the upcoming 2020 with Strevevir (street fashion) will be finished, and it will be released from vintage shops on the replacement. According to the creative director of the Male Louis Vuitton line, it is time when people will gradually begin to move away from purchases of new sports things and raise the views to the archives.Childhood and youth
Virgil Ablo came to this world in the last September Day of the 1980th in the third largest population of Illinois - Rockford, from where the archaeologist James Henry Braster, Singer Michel Williams, Astronavt Nasa Jenis Elaine Voste and Actor Aidan Quinn.
Interest in fashion and craving for the creation of things of the wardrobe laid in the son of the Mother seamstress Yunis, father Nay was far from art and worked at the paint plant. Parents were coming from Ghana, and the boy, for the first time in West Africa for the first time, mentally thanked the head of the family for moving to the United States. After all, otherwise he would not know anything about the world and even the more famous.
Recalling childhood years, the designer said that while studying at Boylan Catholic High School was held with hooligans, a fanaker from rap and rock music, did not get off the skateboard, I tried myself in DJing and had no idea what to do in the future. Therefore, when a time to be determined with the university, he listened to the adult advice.
"Father said:" I always wanted my son to be an engineer. " I replied: "no problem." It is a smaller thing that I could do for him to thank him for everything he did for me. At the 5th year of study, I came to the course on the history of the arts, I learned about the Epoch of Renaissance and Caravaggio, and it turned my consciousness, "the fashion designer explained.As a result, behind his shoulders two ended universities - University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor's degree and Illinois Institute of Technology with a master's degree. The festess of the feshene-industry strengthened Rem Collas in the guy, who ended the construction of one of the IIT buildings and lectured on a couple with Michael Rock at the same university.
Personal life
Personal life of a black fashion designer (growth, according to some data, 188 cm with a weight of 85 kg), which believes that a strong family helps to cope with the creative chaos, is distinguished by enviable constancy. A man met his future wife Shannon was still at a time he studied at school. In 2009, the lovers played a wedding and soon nursed two children - the daughter of Lowe and Son Gray.Embed from getty imagesAs for individual preferences, Ablo does not cease to create music and stand behind the turntables. In 2018, he recorded the debut single, and in 2019 it was among the invited stars of the Belgian festival Tomorrowland.
Career
Before you get to an internship in Fendi, where it happened to Kanye West, Ablo naked his hand in creating T-shirts and writing articles about fashion and design for the popular blog of The Brilliance. In 2009, rapper called a new acquaintance who had time to open a boutique in Chicago and the RSVP Gallery Art Gallery, and offered cooperation by making it a creative director of his own advertising agency Donda.
In 2012, Virgil launched his first Pyrex Vision brand, but "destroyed" him in a year, switching to the creation and development of Off-White, who produced the street clothing of premium-class. The presentation of the women's collection was held at Fashion Week in Paris in 2014, and a little climb of the crafts of the Master reached the final of the LVMH Prize premises.
Embed from getty imagesThe talented American attracted to the work of Nike, IKEA (the sale of collaboration in Russia started on November 22, 2019), Moncler, Burton, Jimmy Choo and neoconceptualist Jenny Holzer. In 2018, Louis Vuitton was not resistant, appointing him responsible for the manufactured men's clothing lines.
Virgil Ablo now
2019 issued a saturated for a talented designer: he launched the Virgil Abloh named brand, entered the CFDA, created a wedding dress with Fata for the star client Hayley Baldwin, held a personalized art exhibition Figures of Speech in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.Exposure, divided into seven parts (Early Work, Fashion, Music, Intermezzo, Black Gaze, Design and The End), reflected the 20-year-old creative biography of Ablo and contained graphic drawings, sneakers, wardrobe items and furniture.
Actual news, fresh photos and new types of collections of Virgila can be found both on the official website and on the personal pages in "Instagram" and "Twitter".
Awards
- 2015 - Finalist LVMH Prize
- 2017 - British Fashion Awards in the Urban Luxe nomination
- 2017 - GQ Men of the Year in the nomination "International Designer of the Year"
- 2017 - Accessory Designer of the Year in the nomination "Shoes of the Year"
- 2018 - one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine