Another Bright African Virgil Abloh Gone Too Soon....

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Virgil Abloh, the barrier-breaking Black designer whose ascent to the heights of the traditional luxury industry changed what was possible in fashion, died on Sunday in Chicago after a two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, rare cancer. He was 41.

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Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. He was the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection from 2018 until his death today. He was also the chief executive officer of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2012. His role within LVMH made him the most powerful Black executive in the most powerful luxury group in the world. His death was confirmed by his family.

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Virgil Abloh was born in Rockford, Ill., on Sept. 30, 1980, to Nee and Eunice Abloh, Ghanaian immigrants, and grew up immersed in skate culture and hip-hop.

Though he did not formally study fashion — he studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology — his mother was a seamstress, and she taught him the basics of her trade.

When he was 22 Mr. Abloh met Kanye West. That relationship set him on the road to Paris when, in 2009, Mr. West signed a deal for a sneaker collaboration with Louis Vuitton, and he and his creative team, including Mr. Abloh, headed off for fashion week and became the talk of the season. (A group photo of Mr. West, Mr. Abloh and their collaborators outside a show went viral online and was even satirized on “South Park.”)

“Streetwear wasn’t on anyone’s radar, but the sort of chatter at dinners after shows was like ‘Fashion needs something new. It’s stagnant. What’s the new thing going to be?’ That was the timeline on which I was crafting my ideas,” Mr. Abloh later told GQ. That was also when he and Mr. West began a six-month internship at Fendi, making $500 a month, and learning the business from the inside out.

The artistic director of Louis Vuitton men’s wear, as well as the founder of his own brand, Off-White, Mr. Abloh, was a prolific collaborator with outside brands from Nike to Evian, and a popular fashion theorist whose expansive and occasionally controversial approach to design inspired comparisons with everyone from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons.

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Virgil Abloh, Barrier-Breaking Designer, Is Dead at 41 (msn.com)

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Sad isn’t it

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Alikuwa juzi na tukaenda kutuma rambirambi. You’re late.

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Mi nimejua saa hii. I guess shosho media inasaidia kusambaza nyews

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My first reaction was guy resembles Kanye West. Halafu naona picha wakiwa pamoja.

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[SIZE=7]How Kanye “Ye” West Is Begging Kim Kardashian Back To No Avail…[/SIZE]
[SIZE=6]On Dec. 9, Kanye West and Drake put their feud behind them to perform at a joint benefit concert and Ye’s ex Kim Kardashian and their kids attended.[/SIZE]
By CORINNE HELLER DEC 11, 2021 2:12 PM

Despite their split, Kim Kardashian showed up to support her ex Kanye West at his latest concert.

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On Thursday, Dec. 9, Ye and Drake put their years-long feud aside for their “Free Larry Hoover” benefit concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Kim attended with her and Kanye’s two eldest kids, North West, 8, and Saint West, 6, their cousin Mason Disick, 11, Kendall Jenner and her boyfriend and NBA star Devin Booker, and mom Kris Jenner and her boyfriend Corey Gamble.
A source told E! News that before the show started, Kanye played with the children backstage at a VIP suite reserved for them and Kim. The insider said, “It seemed to mean a lot to him that they were there—especially that Kim was there” at the concert.
“The only thing that mattered to Kanye was that Kim and her people were taken care of,” the source added. “It was very important to him that Kim was all good and he made it clear that was a priority. He’d been talking about how he just wants his family back.”
Onstage, Kanye made a public plea to Kim by changing the lyrics to his 2010 hit “Runaway,” saying, “I need you to run right back to me. More specifically, Kimberly.”
Kanye’s latest public expression of hope for reconciliation with Kim, with whom he shares four children, is one of several he’s made in recent weeks. However, despite his gesture onstage on Thursday, a day later, Kim filed documents to be considered legally single. She also requested to drop her official last name of West and revert to her maiden name.
In late November, Kim and Ye reunited again in Miami. Along with their daughter North, the former couple attended a fashion tribute event for late Louis Vuitton designer Virgil Abloh, who died of cancer at age 41.
“Kim likes keeping the peace between her and Kanye and it was better off this way,” a source close to Kim told E! News at the time. “She and Kanye are still on good terms.”