Virgil Abloh

I don't play golf.

— Virgil Abloh

Art is made in hindsight.

— Virgil Abloh

My style is to never say no.

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Ironic things are interesting.

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I suck at sleeping.

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Criticism doesn't worry me.

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I do fashion to tell a narrative.

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DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

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There's no line between a designer and consumer.

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I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

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I don't sleep as much as normal people do.

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My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

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I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.

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I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.

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Kanye looks for the best in everything.

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

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

— Virgil Abloh

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

— Virgil Abloh

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

— Virgil Abloh

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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My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that's your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same,…

— Virgil Abloh

Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just…

— Virgil Abloh

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…

— Virgil Abloh

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

— Virgil Abloh

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…

— Virgil Abloh

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a…

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I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

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I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

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I want Off-White to be a graphics-based brand.

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I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.

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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've been DJing since I was in high school.

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Clothing interests me, but it's not the endpoint of my interest.

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