Virgil Abloh

Quick Facts

Full Name	Virgil Abloh
Occupation	Fashion Designer
Date Of Birth	Sep 30, 1980(1980-09-30)
Age	44
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Virgo

Virgil Abloh Biography

Virgil Abloh is one of the most popular and richest Fashion Designer who was born on September 30, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Streetwear designer who is known as the brain behind the designer of the haute couture furniture and clothing collection Off White and also as the creative director of rap star Streetwear designer best recognized as the mind behind the high fashion clothing and furniture collection Off-White and as the creative director for rap superstar Kanye West and his creative content company DONDA. as well as his content creation company DONDA.

He has worked with many famous artists and designers like He has collaborated with countless renowned designers and artists such as Vanessa Beecroft and Takashi Murakami. and Takashi Murakami.

Virgil Abloh (/ˈ æ b l oʊ / ; born September 30, 1980) is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, artist, and DJ who has been the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s men’s wear collection since March 2018. Abloh is also the chief executive officer of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2013.

Abloh met his wife, Shannon Sundberg, in high school. They married in 2009. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two children. Abloh is of the Ewe ethnicity of the Volta region in Ghana.

His parents moved from Ghana to U.S. from Ghana and brought him up to the age of Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Shannon, his partner Shannon in the year 2009.

Virgil Abloh Net Worth

Virgil Abloh is one of the richest Fashion Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Virgil Abloh 's net worth $20 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year 2002 was the time he earned his degree with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He earned his master’s degree in architecture from The Illinois Institute of Technology.

In 2011 the year 2011, he along with In 2011, he and Riccardo Tisci were nominated for the Grammy’s Album Packaging award for their work with Kanye West. were nominated for Grammy’s Album Packaging award for their collaboration in collaboration with Kanye West.

Virgil Abloh was born on September 30, 1980, in Rockford, Illinois, to Ghanaian immigrant parents. His mother was a seamstress and his father managed a paint company. Abloh was raised in Rockford, where he attended Boylan Catholic High School, graduating in 1998. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He received his Master of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2006. When Abloh was attending IIT there was a building on campus under construction designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas which helped spark his interests for fashion. While studying architecture, he designed t-shirts and wrote on fashion and design for a well known blog, The Brilliance. Abloh first met popular musician Kanye West while working on his designs at a Chicago print shop.

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Who is Virgil Abloh Dating?

According to our records, Virgil Abloh married to Shannon Abloh. As of December 1, 2023, Virgil Abloh’s is not dating anyone.

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Abloh founded his first fashion house and second business overall in 2013 with the high-end streetwear brand Off-White. Based in Milan, Italy, the company was described by Abloh as “the gray area between black and white as the color off-white” to investors and fashion critics. During the launch of his brand, he received help from the New Guards Group, who also assisted many other designers and brands, such as Palm Angels, Heron Preston, and Marcelo Burlon. Abloh’s brand lead towards a widespread gain of attention for his apparel beginning in Paris, then expanding to China, Tokyo, Japan and the United States. The clothing line can be identified through its use of quotation marks, zip-ties, capital letters and barricade tape. He launched the company’s women’s wear line in 2014 and showed the collections at the Paris Fashion Week. His line was selected as a finalist for the LVMH Prize, an industry award, but lost to Marques’Almeida and Jacquemus. Abloh launched his first concept store for Off-White in Tokyo, Japan, where he started the company’s furniture arm, Grey Area. In 2017, he was asked to design a new collection in conjunction with Nike entitled “The Ten” where he re-designed a variety of the company’s best-selling shoes. Through Abloh’s re-designing he exercised his self-made rule of only editing the shoes 3% of the way because he was intrigued by still maintaining the original design of the shoe.

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Virgil Ranked on the list of most popular Fashion Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Virgil Abloh celebrates birthday on September 30 of every year.

On March 25, 2018, Abloh was named artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear ready wear line, marking him the first person of African descent to lead the brand’s menswear line, as well as one of the few black designers at the helm of a major French fashion house. Upon his acceptance of the position, he stated, “It is an honor for me to accept this position. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times”. Abloh showed his first collection for Louis Vuitton at the 2018 Men’s Fashion Week at the Palais-Royal gardens in Paris. Rihanna was the first person to wear Abloh before the show. Playboi Carti, Steve Lacy, A$AP Nast, Dev Hynes, and Kid Cudi walked for the fashion show. Abloh has since been in high demand for his designs, creating an original outfit designed for Serena Williams to wear throughout the 2018 US Open, a collaboration with Nike. On June 5, 2018, Virgil Abloh released a special collaboration with the luggage manufacturer Rimowa, a transparent suitcase in limited edition. In March 2019, Abloh collaborated with Ikea to start making furniture for millennials, ranging from cabinets, rugs, coffee tables, and chairs. Abloh has incorporated different elements of style, such as his quotation marks around certain words and putting it on different articles of clothing, and in this case different types of furniture. For example, Abloh created a “Door Stop Interruption” on a chair by adding a doorstop on one of the chair legs to make it elevated. One of Abloh’s most popular items is the Frakta Bag. It is beige with the text “SCULPTURE” imprinted on the side. Virgil teamed up with SSENSE to release a workout collection on March 29, 2019 . This collection contains a variety of workout clothes ranging from; matching leggings and sports bras, athletic sweaters and crop tops. This collection incorporates some of Virgil’s signature designs by including the Off-White yellow sign wrapping around the waist of the pants and bottom of the sports bras. Virgil also includes a three-dimensional addition of his four-way arrows, creating a cross, on the front of the tops and pants. Abloh was featured in conversation with his friend and frequent collaborator Takashi Murakami on the cover of the fall 2018 issue of Cultured magazine.

What happened with Virgil Abloh?

Produced by Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade studio, the video is a memorial to the late-great designer and artistic architect Virgil Abloh, who passed away unexpectedly last November following a private two-plus-year battle with a rare, aggressive form of cancer. He was just 41 years old.

How did Virgil Abloh start Off-White?

Much has been made of Virgil Abloh, the mastermind behind the Milan-based brand, in the press since he launched Off-White in 2014 after garnering fans with his (now-defunct) streetwear brand, Pyrex Vision.

What is Virgil Abloh famous for?

Abloh was best known for being Louis Vuitton Men’s Artistic Director and the CEO of the streetwear label Off-White —but his talent extended way beyond the world of fashion. Abloh was also an architect, engineer, DJ, and musician.

Are Virgil Abloh and Kanye friends?

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West reunited to celebrate the life of their longtime friend and late designer Virgil Abloh at his posthumous presentation for Louis Vuitton.

Is Off-White still cool 2021?

In Q3 2018, Off-White was named the “hottest brand on the planet” by the Lyst Index and continued to top rankings for several consecutive quarters. However, in Q2 2021, the brand slipped out of the top 10.