Virgil Abloh, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton and the first African-American to head a French luxury fashion house, has died of cancer at the age of 41.

LVMH, the French holding company that owns Louis Vuitton, said on Sunday that Abloh had passed away earlier that day after several years’ private struggle with the disease, Independent reports.

“We are all shocked after this terrible news,” said LVMH boss Bernard Arnault. “Virgil was not only a genius designer, a visionary; he was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom.

“The LVMH family joins me in this moment of great sorrow, and we are all thinking of his loved ones after the passing of their husband, their father, their brother or their friend.”

Abloh, the child of Ghanaian immigrants who grew up in Chicago and trained as a civil engineer and then an architect, made his name through collaborations with the rapper Kanye West, with whom he began working in 2002 at the age of 22.

After a stint as the creative director of Mr West’s design agency Donda, and art director for Mr West and Jay-Z’s 2011 album Watch the Throne, Abloh launched his own streetwear brand in Milan called Off-White.

Though he had no formal training in fashion, he had learned much about clothing from his seamstress mother and ascended quickly, winning a British Fashion Award and collaborating with Warby Parker, Jimmy Choo, Ikea and Nike while opening shops in New York and Tokyo.

In 2018 he was named artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collections, the first African-American to win such a role.
“It is an honour for me to accept this position,” he said at the time.

Off-White, he said, “is for the 17-year-old version of myself – whereas Vuitton is for the 37-year-old I am today.”

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RIP Virgil!

Rest well man... Cancer, one of the worst disease to ever grace this earth.. Cutting people off at their prime... Anything cancerous in our life.. God use ur power of healing to uproot it from our body so that it won't kill us at our prime age.

Damn
So sad. Another young and prospering soul gone
Rest in peace man

RIP young talent... God be with u

RIP

RIP man

I noticed cancer takes many legend life

He died young, what kind of cancer would have killed such a vibrant man in his productive age? Leukemia?
Only God knows how much he would have invested in his health to avert this death?
But when it's time, then it's time.

So i won’t be dripping on Louis Vuitton again

May his soul rest in peace

RIP

Rest easy g

Rip

RIP

Life comes and goes

So young..
This cancer of a thing is very annoying,

Famous owner of off white, which the knock off version has littered our streets. RIP. Being alive is a privilege. We all need to be thankful to the creator.

We all know that Life is short...

He made his impact, rest on young blood.....life is a fleeting shadow

what a sad one.

tellwisdom:
He died??

no he went to buy suya

Off white shoes came straight from Virgil Abloh...

Rip man

Live well and enjoy life

Rip champ, keep resting

Rip

Good bye. You made your mark.

Brain less

This is really so sad