A biography for Virgil Ablohhasn’t been written yet.
“There's no line between a designer and consumer.”
“I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.”
“I think my original ambition was to be an artist.”
“The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.”
“People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.”
“I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.”
“My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.”
“I don't play golf.”
“From my perspective, I'm trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.”
“For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I'm friends with, and they're empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes - the clothes don't wear them.”
“I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.”
“I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.”
“Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.”
“Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.”
“My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.”
“I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.”
“DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I'm not talking to anyone; I'm not managing anything. It's just, like, a time when I can listen to music.”
“Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.”
“I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.”
“I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.”