Quotes from Virgil Abloh

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

You can look at Lil Uzi and know he has a strong opinion about his aesthetic.

My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

There's a part of me that's trying to represent kids that don't necessarily have the same outlet that I have. I'm not looking towards a new demographic. I'm looking towards the demographic I came from.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

My style is to never say no.

For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I'm friends with, and they're empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes - the clothes don't wear them.

All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with the different influences in skateboarding, whether that be hip-hop or rock and roll and grunge. And that's what I was into, so I was following all that.

To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic tees says a lot about your point of view.

I don't do the vintage thing so much, just because it's not me. There are some vintage designers I'll buy things from, but mostly not.

I was never meant to, like, work and then turn it off and sit on the couch. I just have a vision, and I'm inspired by it. It's sort of what makes me tick.

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

My lifestyle doesn't really account for movies. I can't even remember what I last saw.