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"All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different..." — 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.
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