Virgil Abloh was an American designer and entrepreneur who was perhaps best known as the founder of Off-White and the creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear—the first person of color to hold the role. He often took existing ideas from a range of sources, including music, history, and architecture, and made them his own. Abloh compared himself to hip-hop artists who sampled from other musicians’ songs for their own work, or to French artist Marcel Duchamp, who created the ready-made, an everyday object that he selected and designated as art.
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