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Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech”
Virgil Abloh (born September 30, 1980) is an African-American multihyphenate - designer, artist, and DJ - who is the founder and CEO of Milan based fashion house Off-White. More recently, Ablohh made history when appointed as artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s Menswear, the first Black person to hold the title. Abloh has decades of experience in fashion design, engineering as well as architecture studies and music, which he flawlessly integrates into his clothing and artworks. The range of his creative practice has never more evident than his exhibition “Figures of Speech,” currently on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Abloh’s exhibition is the first of its kind for the High, taking viewers on a deep dive into his creative process, discipline in the arts, and collaborations ranging from musicians, fashion designers, and architects. The exhibition title itself draws

Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” The exhibition title itself draws off Abloh’s clever use of language and quotation marks angling the objects he designs and the people who don his clothing into “figures of speech.”

Measurable Solutions
On Tuesday, we released a statement postponing our Trial+Error Summit scheduled to commence tomorrow morning. It was the hardest decision we've made as a team in the early stages of growth. From a business standpoint, we had many considerations, and I'm happy we chose well. Better yet, that we chose right. In the days since opting to focus on current justice initiatives, I find myself grappling with a new source of anger unique to those of us at the juncture of oppression and creative praxis.

I am weary at how activism is never a choice for the Black artist. *For the purposes of this piece, art/artist is used to encompass all forms of creative output.* While practitioners in dominant cultures are encouraged to create without bounds, Black art is not afforded that same privilege. No matter the artist's medium - be it visual, textual, sonic or with the body - we are by default working within parameters, and in the overarching industry that is representation.

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