Quotes from Virgil Abloh

Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.

Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.

I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.

I suck at sleeping.

My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that's your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know - you start designing by numbers.

I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.

'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.

I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn't putting my opinion first. It's supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.

I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.

I don't play golf.

Collaboration is not a punchline... I only collaborate with the best in each category.

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

I look at culture, and I see what the kids around me are wearing, and I see a particular style. I understand the space between fashion and streetwear.

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.

There's no line between a designer and consumer.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.

My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

I have this overriding principle that streetwear could end up like disco: that it will be perceived well at the time but doesn't age well at all.

I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.