{"id":11794,"date":"2021-11-29T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11794"},"modified":"2021-11-29T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:19:04","slug":"virgil-abloh-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/29\/virgil-abloh-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil Abloh Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/designer-luxury\/virgil-abloh-dies-of-cancer-at-1235004104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from WWD<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virgil Abloh Dies of Cancer at&nbsp;41<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The designer had privately battled the disease for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wwd-masthead\/joelle-diderich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JOELLE DIDERICH<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wwd-masthead\/luisa-zargani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LUISA ZARGANI<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wwd-masthead\/alessandra-turra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ALESSANDRA TURRA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Virgil-2bw.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2048px%2C1146px&amp;resize=681%2C383\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PARIS \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/virgil-abloh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virgil Abloh<\/a>, the founder of luxury streetwear brand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/off-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Off-White<\/a>\u00a0and artistic director of men\u2019s wear at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/louis-vuitton-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louis Vuitton<\/a>, has died from cancer at the age of 41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most influential designers of his generation, Abloh had been privately battling the disease for several years, LVMH Mo\u00ebt Hennessy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/fashion-scoops\/virgil-abloh-dies-tributes-fashion-industry-celebrities-1235004166\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louis Vuitton<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement on Sunday. The designer died in hospital in Houston on Sunday, according to sources familiar with the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are all shocked after this terrible news. Virgil was not only a genius designer, a visionary, he was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom,\u201d Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH, said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/designer-luxury\/virgil-abloh-dies-of-cancer-at-1235004104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WWD<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WWD Virgil Abloh Dies of Cancer at&nbsp;41 The designer had privately battled the disease for several years. By JOELLE DIDERICH,\u00a0LUISA ZARGANI,\u00a0ALESSANDRA TURRA PARIS \u2014\u00a0Virgil Abloh, the founder of luxury streetwear brand\u00a0Off-White\u00a0and artistic director of men\u2019s wear at\u00a0Louis Vuitton, has died from cancer at the age of 41. One of the most influential designers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}