Fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who had served as the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear since 2018, died Sunday (November 28) after a private battle with cancer, the clothing company confirmed in a statement on its verified Twitter account.
“LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years,” Louis Vuitton tweeted.
“We are all shocked after this terrible news,” Louis Vuitton chairman Berard Arnault said in the company’s official statement announcing Abloh’s death. “Virgil was not only a genius designer, a visionary, he was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom. The LVMH family joins me in this moment of great sorry, and we are all thinking of his loved ones after the passing of their husband, their father, their brother or their friend.”
An official statement shared on Abloh’s verified Instagram account confirms the fashion icon “battled a rare, aggressive form of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma,” after being diagnosed in 2019 and “undergoing numerous challenging treatments, all while helming several significant institutions that span fashion, art, and culture.
