Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Robin Givhan discusses her new book Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh
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Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh, Make it Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh. She profiles Abloh’s legendary work and impact, revealing how the son of Ghanaian immigrants was able to infiltrate all aspects of our culture and inspire millions. Not only a remarkable biography of his singular creative force, the book is a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury.
With access to Abloh’s family, friends, collaborators, and contemporaries, and featuring a cast of fascinating characters ranging from groundbreaking Black designers like Ozwald Boateng, to Abloh’s mercurial but critical employer and mentor Kanye West, Givhan tells a captivating, great American story of how a young man’s rise amid this cultural moment would upend a century’s worth of ideas about luxury and taste.
Robin is currently on a book tour. On August 26, she will speak and sign books at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Click here for details.
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