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Video: Fashion heavyweaights talk with Vogue about activism, community service and education

Editor-In-Chief of British Vogue, Edward Enninful, sits down for a virtual conversation activism, education and community service with some of fashion's biggest players. Enninful is joined by actress Yara Shahidi, designer Virgil Abloh, writer and director Janet Mock, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors; social justice activists...

5 Aug 2020

Fashion

Off-White launches ‘I Support Young Black Businesses’ initiative

Virgil Abloh and Off-White have announced an ongoing commitment to the Black community with the launch of a quarterly fundraising programme, ‘I Support Young Black Businesses’. The project will raise funds for organisations chosen by Abloh and his team to support the Black community, explained the brand in a press release, by selling items where...

3 Aug 2020

Fashion

Louis Vuitton taking its mensewar show to China and Japan

Louis Vuitton is taking its men's fashion collections on the road for the first time, the luxury brand said Friday, with shows in China and Japan rather than Paris. The label's American designer Virgil Abloh said the spring 2021 collection will be unveiled in Shanghai on August 6 and in Japan afterwards. Both will be open to the general public...

13 Jul 2020

Fashion

Virgil Abloh raises 1 million dollars for "Post-Modern" scholarship fund

Virgil Abloh is working to promote change for the future of the fashion industry. The notable designer has raised 1 million dollars for a new scholarship fund to provide financial support to students of academic promise of Black, African-American or African descent. Abloh raised funds through his own donation and through support of his partners,...

9 Jul 2020

Retail

Off-White lands at Roma Rinascente

Off-White takes over the Italian department store Roma Rinascente. On Thursday, Virgil Abloh's label inaugurated a 27 square meter space on the second floor of 61 Via del Tritone . The location offers the brand's men's collections in a sleek decor. Heavy green curtains adorn the wall, plum carpeting covers the floor and the furniture is made...

26 Jun 2020

People

Virgil Abloh faces backlash after looting comments

Off-White founder and Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director, Virgil Abloh, has come under fire for his looting comments amid the Black Lives Matter protests after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week. The designer, in an Instagram post, wrote: “Case & point # 81 why I said ‘streetwear’ is dead,” in reference to a video of the...

2 Jun 2020

Fashion

Eight finalists of LVMH Prize announced

LVMH has announced the eight fashion brands to be nominated for the LVMH Prize final, which will take place on 5 June at Fondation Louis Vuitton. The finalists, who were narrowed down from an original list of 20 hopefuls, are Ahluwalia , Casablanca, Chopova Lowena, Nicholas Daley, Peter Do, Sindiso Khumalo, Supriya Lele, and Tomotoka Koizumi....

10 Mar 2020

Fashion

Streetwear's need for a new narrative

There comes a time when every trend or moment in fashion has run its course, then we move on to the next best thing. In the late 1940s, formalwear and haute couture aesthetic ruled over popular fashion. These ideas and these looks would dominate the fashion sphere and would lead to the growth of ready-to-wear, as customers would eventually...

19 Feb 2020

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Louis Vuitton: Heaven On Earth by Virgil Abloh

Given exclusive access to Louis Vuitton's Men's Fall-Winter 2020 Fashion Show by Virgil Abloh, Loïc Prigent meets the incredibly diverse cast of models and special guests from around the world. Spend some time with Kris Wu, Ashton Sanders, Tyga, Kailand Morris, Diplo and J Balvin and discover how it feels dressing for Heaven on Earth. Source:...

29 Jan 2020

Fashion

Abloh swaps streetwear for structure in Louis Vuitton AW20 menswear show

It has been dismissed as the straitjacket of the wage-slave salary man. But the suit and tie is far from finished if Thursday's Paris men's fashion week catwalks are anything to go by. Having been propelled to the top of fashion as the king of streetwear, Virgil Abloh turned his magpie gaze on the boring old business suit for Louis Vuitton....

17 Jan 2020

Fashion

Abloh refinds his dancing feet as Paris fashion parties

Virgil Abloh made headlines last week by predicting the end of streetwear, the trend he has ridden to the top of the fashion tree. His Off-White Paris men's fashion week show Wednesday lived up to his prophecy -- the least street that the American designer has produced for his ultra-hip label whose clothes are snapped up by rappers and copied by...

16 Jan 2020

Fashion

Parisian transport strike causing chaos for men's fashion week

Paris men's fashion week began Tuesday with the French capital in the grip of a 41-day transport strike that has already led to the cancellation of one show. The men's collections dovetail into the elite haute couture shows next week, with the French label Christophe Josse so hit by the chaos that it was forced to bow out. "We found ourselves...

15 Jan 2020