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Virgil Abloh Was a Mensch
Virgil Abloh acknowledges the audience at the end of the Louis Vuitton men's Fall/Winter 2019/2020 collection fashion show in Paris. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images)
You don't need to care about fashion to learn something from the way my brilliant friend lived.
By Leah McSweeney
12.02.21 — Culture and Ideas
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Maybe you’ve never heard of Virgil Abloh, or Off -White, Abloh’s streetwear brand. Maybe you only first heard his name this week when the tributes came pouring in for the genius fashion designer, who died from a rare cancer at 41. Maybe you don’t care much about fashion, or think it’s superficial, or assume that most people in the fashion industry are v…

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Leah McSweeney
Leah McSweeney is the founder of Married to the Mob, a star of The Real Housewives of New York, and the author of "Chaos Theory," forthcoming in April.
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