Virgil Abloh Talks Chicago Retrospective — and What’s Next

CHICAGO — From fashion and music to art and architecture, “Figures of Speech,” the first exhibition devoted to the work of Virgil Abloh, opens Monday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. “I like to think of it as a snapshot of culture,” said the 38-year-old Abloh, the founder of Off-White and artistic director of men’s wear at Louis Vuitton, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and ripped jeans, by Off-White, and electric blue Nike sneakers, also his design, during a sitdown interview Friday in an office at the MCA, away from the buzz of the museum press preview. “If you were to take a cross section between the consumer and the producer, or the tourist and the purist, or Europe and America, in terms of, like, it’s almost like you took a slice of the Internet and you caught a little bit of the real world,” said Abloh, who DJs around the world and served as Kanye West’s creative director at Donda, where he oversaw everything from album packaging to stage design. “You would get the high, the low, you would get art, a little bit of the sneaker culture. I’m just going around the world more as like an anthropologist or something, just

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