Virgil Abloh

I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.

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I've been DJing since I was in high school.

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I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

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I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth.

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I want to put culture on a track so that it becomes more inclusive, more open source.

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I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

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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…

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My lifestyle doesn't really account for movies. I can't even remember what I last saw.

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Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

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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…

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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.

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The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

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I can come up with 30 T-shirt designs in a day, but it's just about where to slot each of them. That's…

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To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic…

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For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a…

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I was never meant to, like, work and then turn it off and sit on the couch. I just have a vision,…

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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…

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I have this overriding principle that streetwear could end up like disco: that it will be perceived well at the time but…

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Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they're the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill…

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I oftentimes say that I design my collections off my phone. I'm in a group chat with my team in Milan. I…

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I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

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

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I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.

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'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.

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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.

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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.

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I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.

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I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

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My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

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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.

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I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

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

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The best New Year's resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.

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You can look at Lil Uzi and know he has a strong opinion about his aesthetic.

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I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

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The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

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I don't do the vintage thing so much, just because it's not me. There are some vintage designers I'll buy things from,…

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People, when they say 'streetwear,' they miss the central component, which is that it's real people; it's clothes that are worn on…

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I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.

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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…

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