Author Profile
Virgil Abloh
1980 • American • Designer
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesFor 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.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh
From my perspective, I'm trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.— Virgil Abloh
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.— 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 idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.— 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 tees says a lot about your point of view.— Virgil Abloh
The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.— Virgil Abloh
People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.— Virgil Abloh
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.— Virgil Abloh