Quotes by Virgil Abloh - Page 2

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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Aesthetic
Blue Collar
Sweating
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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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Angst
Our Generation
Bit
Belong
Feeling
Generation
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I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.
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Plates
World See Know
Shift
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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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Luxurious
Important Message
Most Beautiful
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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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Counselor
Me Ideas More
Phrase
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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 on a commercial scale.
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All Day
Scale
Commercial
Implement
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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 totally new.
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Collaboration
Whole
Things
Totally
Take
Create
How
Each
Give
Other
Point
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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, but mostly not.
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Vintage
Designers
Mostly
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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 the street.
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Worn
Component
Real People
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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 doesn't age well at all.
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Disco
Overriding
Perceived
Principle
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I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.
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Fashion
Fit
Gray
Gray Area
Just
Me
Area
Box
Between
Brand
Choose
High
Just Be
Reminds
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Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.
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Albums
Needs
Synergy
Tangible
Visual
Naturally
Direction
Element
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I look at culture, and I see what the kids around me are wearing, and I see a particular style. I understand the space between fashion and streetwear.
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Fashion
Particular
Wearing
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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, and I'm inspired by it. It's sort of what makes me tick.
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Tick
Couch
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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 what you're brand means within a T-shirt.
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Graphic
Vibes
Within
Basis
Brand
Makes
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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, you know - you start designing by numbers.
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Numbers
Selling
Designing
Premise
Sudden
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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 tees says a lot about your point of view.
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Designer
Expressive
Format
Graphic
Point Of View
Taste
Me Important Your
Point
Says
View
The Most Important
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Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.
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Scales
Quantities
Teams
Vital
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For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.
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Designer
Emerged
Maintain
Shop
Recorder
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From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.
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Age
Clothes
Skateboarding
Teenager
Young
Young Age
Very
Those
Resulted
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I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn't putting my opinion first. It's supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.
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Collaborating
Supporting
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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 idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.
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Recognise
Subtlety
Valuable
Catch
Focusing
Reward
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For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I'm friends with, and they're empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes - the clothes don't wear them.
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Bills
Empowered
Analyze
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The concept with Off-White is that I have no ideal target. It's more about trying to make something for everyone. And I think that's what helps make it unique. That there isn't a specific muse.
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Muse
Target
Trying
Unique
More
Everyone
Make
Concept
Helps
Ideal
Something
Specific
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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 gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.
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Architecture
Consumed
Music Always Me
Music Architecture Always
Gap
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My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.
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Black And White
Dialogue
Fashion
Middle
Middle Ground
White
Name
Genres
Ground
Mixture
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There's a part of me that's trying to represent kids that don't necessarily have the same outlet that I have. I'm not looking towards a new demographic. I'm looking towards the demographic I came from.
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Demographic
Me Looking New
Outlet
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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 streetwear to me. It's about knowing where to buy things, not this mass thing you can get anywhere.
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Mass
Anywhere
Where Me Day
Designs
Slot
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If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.
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Work Yourself Look
Mentally
Challenge
Formative
Older
Work Look Yourself
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
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Great
Artistic
Culture
Earth
Fashion
Limited Time
Passion
Taste
Two
Youth
Youth Culture
Things
Time Great Music
Forms
Time Music Great
Evolving
Eyes
Look
Fresh
Limited
Molded
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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 - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.
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Design
Fashion
Youth
Youth Culture
Concept
Context
Interpret
Vigour
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DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I'm not talking to anyone; I'm not managing anything. It's just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
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Favourite
Loud
Not Talking
Peace Of Mind
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Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.
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Canvas
Clothes
Different
Fashion
Should
Social
Things
Get
Behind
Bogged
Brand
Cares
Too
Joke
Down
Project
Which
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It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times.
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Drawing
Heritage
Integrity
Modern Times
Parallels
Louis
Men Look Me
Inspirations
Reference
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In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his artistic language into today's world, choosing, for example, to use pedestrian-crossing stripes as a symbol.
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Artistic
Expressive
Stripes
Choosing
Today World New
Duchamp
For Example
Marcel
Possibilities
Symbol
Transferred
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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 copy and paste. I draw. I look at trends. I don't really have an assistant. It's a modern way of working. I don't know if it's sustainable, but it's how I do it.
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Design
Collections
Milan
Team
Trends
Assistant
Chat
Copy
Sustainable
Draw
Phone
Group
Oftentimes
Paste
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All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with the different influences in skateboarding, whether that be hip-hop or rock and roll and grunge. And that's what I was into, so I was following all that.
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Brands
Different Styles
Following
Graphic
Hip Hop
Rock And Roll
Skateboarding
Influences
Styles
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Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.
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Artist
Brain
Brilliant
Lasting
Relevant
Artists
Idea
Coming
Continue
Course
Period
Good Idea
Puts
Super
Tom
Unless
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