A crowd-free performance due to coronavirus restrictions. The video features American rapper and actor Saul Williams walking through an abstract stage made of green marble, where he interacts with models wearing items from the collection.
In one scene Williams enters a large room where two models showed a pair of puffer jackets that feature a selection of 3D models of recognizable buildings.
Paris buildings appear on one of the jackets with Notre-Dame cathedral and other historic buildings, as the Eiffel Tower, the Arch de Triumph, the Panthéon, or modern buildigns as Le Grand Louvre pyramid and a section of the Centre Pompidou.
The second jacket was informed by Chicago, where Virgil Abloh studied architecture before becoming a fashion designer, was wrapped in 3D models of skyscrapers, as the John Hancock Center in Chicago by SOM and the Bank of China skyscraper in Hong Kong by Pei.
Abloh studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was head of the department of architecture in the 1940s and 50s and built the Crown Hall.
The emerald green marble set used for the show recalls the material used by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich at the Barcelona Pavilion, and several Barcelona chairs, which were designed by the pair, can be seen in the show.
He recently collaborated with AMO director Samir Bantal to design the Off-White flagship store in Miami and opened the brand's first store in Milan.
In one scene Williams enters a large room where two models showed a pair of puffer jackets that feature a selection of 3D models of recognizable buildings.
Paris buildings appear on one of the jackets with Notre-Dame cathedral and other historic buildings, as the Eiffel Tower, the Arch de Triumph, the Panthéon, or modern buildigns as Le Grand Louvre pyramid and a section of the Centre Pompidou.
The second jacket was informed by Chicago, where Virgil Abloh studied architecture before becoming a fashion designer, was wrapped in 3D models of skyscrapers, as the John Hancock Center in Chicago by SOM and the Bank of China skyscraper in Hong Kong by Pei.
Abloh studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was head of the department of architecture in the 1940s and 50s and built the Crown Hall.
The emerald green marble set used for the show recalls the material used by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich at the Barcelona Pavilion, and several Barcelona chairs, which were designed by the pair, can be seen in the show.
He recently collaborated with AMO director Samir Bantal to design the Off-White flagship store in Miami and opened the brand's first store in Milan.
