American designer Virgil Abloh died in Chicago on November 28, aged 41, following a more than two-year private battle with a rare cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma. 

At the time of his death, Mr Abloh was artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collections and chief creative officer of his own label, Off-White. He initially rose to prominence as creative director of fellow artistic multi-hyphenate Kanye West’s creative incubator, Donda, and his career trajectory subsequently involved collaborations with Nike, IKEA and Evian. 

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