Design Icon Virgil Abloh’s Impact
The tragic and unexpected death of Virgil Abloh, Chicago born fashion mogul sent shockwaves this past Sunday. Passing away at the tender age of 41, Virgil’s meteoric rise in design is unprecedented. In roughly 12 years Virgil’s fast rise to prominence, both in the industry and public eye, a feat rarely seen for anybody, let alone for a humble Chicago Black man with nothing but his ambitions. In 2006, Abloh obtained his master’s in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In his 20’s while attending college, Virgil started designing T-shits and writing about design for popular blog site The …