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"50 Virgil Abloh Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 September 1980 | Fashion designer | Artist |

Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.

Idea Come Mind Look
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Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

About Art Behind Big
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The fashion consumer likes a high-low mix - I want to be a brand that represents that.

Brand Consumer Fashion Likes
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Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.

Albums Art Between Direction
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Kanye's the best. He really, really is. He's cool. And why we've always gotten along is because we can just sit down and talk about art.

About Along Always Art
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I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

Artists Collection Fully Idea
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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.

Collaboration Create Each Give
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Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

Around Collection Doing Inspired
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I do fashion to tell a narrative.

Fashion Narrative Tell Story
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What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

About Aggressive Finesse Game
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For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

Boring Catch Focusing Idea
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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.

Become Chicago Felt Kid
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The most important message is to let me just focus on making the most beautiful normcore clothes, but as luxurious as possible.

Beautiful Clothes Focus Important
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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.

Analyze Bills Clothes Empowered
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All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.

All Day Art Commercial Day
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There's no line between a designer and consumer.
Between Consumer Designer Line
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I hate being up onstage with a microphone.
Being Hate Microphone Onstage
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My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

Degree Engineering First Structural
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People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

Able Art Concepts Exciting
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Artistic Culture Earth Evolving
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I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

Confidence Having More Really
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When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

Believe Bring Creativity Global
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I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

Area Between Box Brand
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I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Always Had Idea Ladder
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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.

Always Been Breaking Come
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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.

Because Become Challenge Did
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The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

Amount Conversations Ideas Insane
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I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

Exists Fashion I Think Reason
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I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

About Believe Between Fashion
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I think my original ambition was to be an artist.
Ambition Artist I Think Original
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My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that's your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know - you start designing by numbers.

About Clothes Designing End
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I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.

Fashion Happening Like Look
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As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.

Culture Designer Interested Lifeline
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I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.
Little Phone Possible Talk
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My lifestyle doesn't really account for movies. I can't even remember what I last saw.
Account Even Last Lifestyle
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I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

Art Buying Find Friends
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Collaboration is not a punchline... I only collaborate with the best in each category.

Best Category Collaborate Collaboration
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I've been DJing since I was in high school.

Been High High School School
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I don't sleep as much as normal people do.
Much Normal Normal People People
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My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

Dad Engineer He Immigrant
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My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

Angst Belong Bit Feeling
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From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.

Age Clothes Hip-Hop Kid
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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.

Between Black Black And White Both
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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.

Design Graphic Graphic Design I Can
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I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

Also Anything Felt Right
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I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.
Always Any Any Given Time Given
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My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Been Before Concept Context
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I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

Cities Constantly Friends Inspired
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I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.
Care Education Kid Off
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I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

Got Know Maybe Movie
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