Are you crazy about fashion & have a deep love for Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection? Then truly a piece of sad news for you! The artistic director & backbone of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection, Virgil Abloh, is no more with us. The designer has recently expired at 41 years of age after battling cancer for nearly 2 years.
As per the statement of Virgil’s family, the doctors diagnosed him with an uncommon & aggressive type of cancer 2 years ago, whose name is angiosarcoma. They said they are just feeling devastated to make the announcement of the passing away of their own beloved, Virgil Abloh.
Angiosarcoma is a variety of cancer that emanates in the blood vessels’ & lymph vessels’ lining of a person’s body. This cancer impacts the skin of a person like a bruise-like lesion, which grows over time. This kind of cancer has an extremely poor survival rate, with a reported 5-year survival rate of nearly thirty-five percent of patients, who have non-metastatic angiosarcoma. In the majority of cases, recurrence occurs within twenty-four months of local treatment. Virgil Abloh tried a lot to beat the disease but ultimately death succumbed him.
The Instagram page of Abloh, on Sunday (28th November 2021), displayed a statement posted by his family in which his family confessed that Abloh was a fiercely committed father, son, friend, husband & brother.
After the death of the US-based designer, his family revealed that due to his diagnosis of angiosarcoma, he underwent numerous treatments, that are actually very challenging in nature. And, the most important thing is that he continued all of these treatments alongside continuing his fashion & art-related works.
Abloh was not only Louis Vuitton’s artistic director but also the CEO of Off-White, a Milan-based label & a fashion house (founded by him in 2012). Besides that, he was Donda’s Creative Director. Not only that, he has also received many awards & honors in his lifetime. He was a 2011 nominated candidate for the “Grammy Award for Best Recording Package”.
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He started his career in the international fashion world after doing an internship on it at Fendi (2009). He did it alongside Kanye West, the American rapper. The artistic collaboration of these two geniuses actually launched the career of Abloh into establishing Off-White. Abloh became the 1st African-American artistic director, who was in charge of a French fashion (luxury) house.
Further, he was also the 2015 finalist for the Prize of LVMH. Furthermore, the British Fashion Awards platform handed him over with the 2017 Urban Luxe Award. Moreover, he was presented the ” International designer of the year” award in 2017 (at the Go men of the year awards ceremony). Again, Virgil was named among the world’s hundred most influential people (2018) by Time magazine. Like this, the List of prizes & honors that Abloh got during his lifetime is endless. He was also nominated in 2019 for the “2019 Menswear Designer of the year”.
Virgil’s family further confessed it was Abloh’s belief that art has the ability to motivate future generations. He also used to say often that everything he does, he does for the seventeen-year-old young version of himself. Virgil’s family thanked his fans & supporters for their love & support towards Virgil & since they are very much grieved, for now, they requested some privacy from the public.
Not only his family but also many other renowned people like the LVMH’s CEO, Bernard Arnault is grieving the death of Virgil. According to Arnault, Virgil is a genius designer & a visionary, who was also wise & had a beautiful soul. He added the entire LVMH family is in great sorrow after the passing of Virgil & they can feel the pain of his family members after his passing out.
Gigi Hadid, Justin Timberlake & Hailey Bieber were some other among the many stars, who paid their tribute to the creative mind, who is once-in-a-generation. Gigi, the supermodel, shared a series of photos of Virgil with her & wrote that she is heartbroken by the sudden loss of her dear friend, who used to inspire her every day & who was also the whole world’s friend.
As Virgil was battling cancer during these years, his wife, Shannon Abloh, sister Edwina Abloh & children Lowe Abloh & Grey Abloh stayed beside him & continuously supported him. But what is destined to happen always happens. So, is the early death of Virgil Abloh. All his family members are seriously traumatized by it & we are no less traumatized as well. And, what we feel is that no other artistic director can take the place of this person, though everyone is great in their unique ways of fashion designing & arts conception.
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