Il Brooklyn museum is preparing a retrospective-tribute to Virgil Abloh while sneakers Nike air force 1 designed by the designer fly to the auctions of Sotheby's.
Abloh, creative director of the French fashion house, was considered a true genius of fashion. He died last November alone 41 years for a rare form of cancer and now his creativity, after the last catwalk of 21st January al Carreau du Temple a Paris, returns to express itself in posthumous reviews.
The first will be this summer at Brooklyn museum, a New York institution that is carving out an alternative space to Costume Institute of the Metropolitan for fashion exhibitions. Entitled "Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech“, The retrospective will develop themes initially explored in 2019 al Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, adding new never-before-seen objects from the designer's archive and a special focus on his relationship with New York.
Included in the exhibition will be other more famous collaborations by Abloh like those with the artist Takashi Murakami, the rapper Kanye West and the architect Rem Koolhaas. Pieces designed for his fashion line Off white they will be joined by those from the men's collections Louis Vuitton in a roundup of twenty years of work exhibited from July XNUMXst to the end of January 2023 and anchored to the "social sculpture" in the large rotunda in the center of the museum: a structure designed for Virgil to counter the historic lack of space accorded to African-American and black artists in cultural institutions.
The funds raised will go to Virgil Abloh 'Post-Modern' Scholarship Fund, a fund that supports the academic training of promising students of Black, African American or African descent: it was the most valuable charity auction in nearly ten years of history. Sotheby's.
