A biography for Virgil Ablohhasn’t been written yet.
“I hate being up onstage with a microphone.”
“Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.”
“I can come up with 30 T-shirt designs in a day, but it's just about where to slot each of them. That's streetwear to me. It's about knowing where to buy things, not this mass thing you can get anywhere.”
“For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.”
“I don't sleep as much as normal people do.”
“I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth.”
“People, when they say 'streetwear,' they miss the central component, which is that it's real people; it's clothes that are worn on the street.”
“Kanye looks for the best in everything.”
“My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.”
“I've been DJing since I was in high school.”
“The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.”
“I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.”
“Everything I do references something that influenced me.”
“My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.”
“If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.”
“I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.”
“As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.”
“I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn't putting my opinion first. It's supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.”
“I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.”
“I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.”