Not everyone has access to runway shows, but luckily more and more museums are making it possible for the public to see designs by the world’s most talented fashion designers up close. Here are seven fashion exhibitions not to miss in 2019. Gender Bending Fashion Fashion designers often defy the boundaries between men’s and women’s clothing, so...
Jan 18, 2019
Virgil Abloh bent the knee to Michael Jackson -- a fellow African American from the Midwest whose "prodigious talent catapulted him to unparalleled fame" -- in his Louis Vuitton show Thursday at Paris men's fashion week. The designer -- the first African American ever to lead a major Paris label -- did not make a direct comparison between...
Having hogged the headlines throughout the last Paris men's fashion week, Louis Vuitton's streetwear supremo Virgil Abloh attempted to repeat the trick Wednesday by giving the suit and tie a millennial makeover. Having set Instagram alight by sending out Michael Jackson-style sparkly white gloves as invitations for his Louis Vuitton show...
Jan 17, 2019
First Off-White, then Louis Vuitton Men's, and now Virgil Abloh. The busy designer is launching a new label, this one his namesake. While still holding his creative director and men's artistic director roles with Off-White and Louis Vuitton respectively, Abloh introduces a new jewelry line, inspired by a paperclip and named for himself. The new...
Jan 16, 2019
Virgil Abloh was a collaboration machine in 2018 and he’s showing no signs of slowing down in 2019. In fact, his label Off-White is launching its largest collaboration to date: a 44-piece capsule collection with luxury e-tailer Mr Porter, set to launch on January 21. “It’s the largest capsule we’ve produced with a brand to date. It’s been...
Paris men's fashion week started Tuesday with a tsunami of new talent but with shows also threatened by the "yellow vests" protest movement that has been rocking France. Dior moved its show from Saturday to Friday to avoid the weekly Paris demonstrations which often turn violent after its flagship shop on the Champs Elysees was looted after a...
Jan 15, 2019
Designers, models, retailers, and professionals of all stripes in our industry might soon be questioning the value of their expensive educations, hard-won promotions, and patient ladder-climbing as career paths are not as straightforward as they once were. Take now-household name, Virgil Abloh. This week he was announced as new Creative Advisor...
Dec 19, 2018
Virgil Abloh, creative director of his own line, Off-White, and menswear director of Louis Vuitton, is still everyone's man of the hour. Just ask Evian who named the fashion designer and DJ their new creative adviser. Abloh will be focused on sustainable innovation design in this new role. View this post on Instagram “evian® is an iconic brand...
Dec 7, 2018
Every Friday, FashionUnited selects the most interesting reads about the fashion industry published across US and international news outlets. Here’s what you may have missed: The importance of fashion for political protests Protesters wearing yellow vests have taken France by storm since November. Initially motivated by a sharp increase in...
Virgil Abloh, menswear creative director at Louis Vuitton, has collaborated with another company from the LVMH Group. The designer, who is also at the helm of streetwear label Off-White, has revisited the bottle of Moët & Chandon’s Nectar Impérial Rosé. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Moët & Chandon Official (@moetchandon) on Oct...
Oct 23, 2018
For the first in a series where British Vogue contributing editor Naomi Campbell meets designers making debuts at historic fashion houses, Campbell sits down with Virgil Abloh in his Paris headquarters. Source: British Vogue Channel, YouTube.
Oct 9, 2018
Parisians do not exactly have a reputation as impulsive early risers who like to queue up to buy a rug. But that is exactly what happened on Saturday morning when hundreds of people crowded into a pop-up store on Quai d'Austerlitz to buy one of four models of rugs, designed by none other than Off-White’s Virgil Abloh for Swedish furniture giant...
Oct 3, 2018
