The former – connoisseurs and specialists with deep knowledge – form a sort of aesthetic conscience for the latter, who are visiting the scene out of personal curiosity and whose perspective is therefore unencumbered by history or conventional wisdom.įlossmoor, my hometown, is a couple hours southeast of Rockford, where Abloh grew up, in the clusters of strip malls, construction sites and suburbs known as Chicagoland. Given that I don’t own any of the clothing he designed, I am wary of characterising myself as a true devotee, but one of Abloh’s more durable ideas is the purist-tourist paradigm.
After my wife sent me a text asking if I’d seen the news about Virgil Abloh’s passing this week (I had not), I sat waiting for the fair-weather well-wishers to pile on overcompensatory praise.
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