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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 …

Thirty years ago, rock music was shaken to its core and with that upheaval came a new era and different attitude in American music and demeanor. This change sparked a radical shift for rock as a genre, rendering the shiny, over the top acts of sub-genres like Hair Metal and Glam Rock virtually obsolete along with groups such as Van Halen, Guns N’ Roses, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe, to name a few. For a stretch of time between the early to mid 1990s, rock had captured the world’s attention with the help of the Seattle Grunge scene manned …