Virgil Abloh

“It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to refer...”

“I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.”

“Ironic things are interesting.”

“Kanye's the best. He really, really is. He's cool. And why we've always gotten along is because we can just sit down and talk about art.”

“Kanye looks for the best in everything.”

“I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.”

“I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.”

“I hate being up onstage with a microphone.”

“I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.”

“I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.”

“The concept with Off-White is that I have no ideal target. It's more about trying to make something for everyone. And I think that's what helps make it unique. That there isn't a specific mu...”

“I do fashion to tell a narrative.”

“I don't sleep as much as normal people do.”

“I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.”

“I don't play golf.”

“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.”

“Everything I do references something that influenced me.”

“I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.”

“The best New Year's resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.”

“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.”