According to Virgil Abloh, Ambience Is the New Vibes

Ahhhhh, the magic of fashion week.

People like to romanticize the way fashion was once a subculture, particularly in the 1970s and 1990s, but what that implies is that it’s now its own culture, as popular as music or movies.

The plot loosely followed Liquid Swords, the 1995 GZA album: a young swordsman wanders through the desert, enters a portal into an artificial birch forest, and then a kendo studio/nightclub/chess theater.

His invitations for the show reminded us that this was his seventh overall, rather than some particular season plus his icons, like GZA and, in his last video, Mos Def.

His view of his role at Vuitton—as a corrective historian addressing or revising industry’s divisive relationship with its Black fans and customers—threads together his puffer gowns, knife pleat skirts, audacious furs, and rave colors.

And yet no one outside of those designers have really been talking about whether a designer can really copy responsibly , but he’s now engulfed the controversy this kind of knock-off elicits and made it part of his practice.

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