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What you may not have known about designer Virgil Abloh
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BBC Three helpfully informs us of five things we may not have known about US fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who died 28th November last year. Clearly, the BBC Three droid jumped the gun on the one-year anniversary tribute by six weeks.

  1. His ‘insane’ work ethic;
  2. He made much more than clothing;
  3. He helped to found a school…the BLM-inspired School for Black Feminist Politics in Washington DC, not a realio-dealio teaching establishment;
  4. He had his critics…but it was all just racism, dahling;
  5. He inspired other young designers.

To which I'll add a sixth thing about Virgil Abloh that most people wouldn't have known, although it's probably the only one of general relevance:

  1. That he'd ever existed in the first place.

No disrespect meant to either Abloh or BBC Three's excitable droid, but a fashion designer for Louis Vuitton really isn't that significant in the wider conciousness.

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