Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano There’s no way to dive into fashion without immediately coming face to face with two of the modern greats: Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. Dana Thomas’s Gods and Kings follows the course of the pair’s similarly timed (and in the eyes of…
Virgil Abloh, photographed by Gregory Harris. How does one write a record of the most prolific designers of our time? That was a question on Robin Givhan’s mind when she began crafting Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh, a new biography on the late great fashion kingpin, who succumbed to…
NEW YORK (AP) — With his calm and cool demeanor, fashion disruptor and multi-hyphenate Virgil Abloh artfully challenged the fashion industry’s traditions to leave his mark as a Black creative, despite his short-lived career. In the years since his 2021 death at just 41, his vision and image still linger. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robin Givhan…