Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech

Author: Darling, MichaelBrand: PrestelColor: BlueBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 496Release Date: 28-05-2019Part Number: 56918390Details: One of The New York Times Best Entertaiment Gifts of 2019 New York Magazine's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books of 2019 From street fashion to high culture, the work of Virgil Abloh, a celebrated multihyphenate artist, is showcased in this book. For Abloh, the museum catalogue is another opportunity to "question everything." This monograph, produced in close collaboration with the artist himself, explores his creative output in a three-books-in-one format. The catalogue section offers an overview of Abloh's interdisciplinary practice by Michael Darling and features essays and interviews with key voices in art, fashion, design, and architecture, including Taiye Selasi, Lou Stoppard, Michael Rock, Samir Bantal, Rem Koolhaas, and Anja Aronowsky Cronberg. In the archives section, more than 1,800 never-before-seen images pulled from the artist's perso