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What is Virgil Abloh’s three-percent rule?

Abloh often drew inspiration from music, history, and architecture, and his three-percent rule suggested that changing just a small part of an original design is enough to create an authentic one. He often compared his work as a designer to hip-hop artists who sampled from other musicians’ songs for their own work.