Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Virgil Abloh - Page 2

The fashion consumer likes a high-low mix - I want to be a brand that represents that.

The most important message is to let me just focus on making the most beautiful normcore clothes, but as luxurious as possible.

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

I oftentimes say that I design my collections off my phone. I'm in a group chat with my team in Milan. I copy and paste. I draw. I look at trends. I don't really have an assistant. It's a modern way of working. I don't know if it's sustainable, but it's how I do it.

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.

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

The best New Year's resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.

I don't play golf.

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

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

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.

There's no line between a designer and consumer.

For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

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

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

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 interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.

I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

My friends and me, we're the type that don't care. We're not into fashion. That's, like, millennial spirit.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.

I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.

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

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his artistic language into today's world, choosing, for example, to use pedestrian-crossing stripes as a symbol.

I've been DJing since I was in high school.

As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.

All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.

I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

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