{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Robin Givhan and Monica L. Miller: The Genius of Virgil Abloh","description":"Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Robin Givhan joins Monica L. Miller, professor and co-curator of Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the Costume Institute exhibition now on view at The Met, for a conversation about the crossroads of fashion, culture, identity, and art \u2014 and the life of the great designer Virgil Abloh, as told in Givhan\u2019s new biography, Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh. The first Black designer to serve as artistic director of Louis Vuitton in the brand\u2019s 164-year history, Virgil Abloh\u2019s appointment as head of menswear in 2018 shocked the fashion industry. Blurring the lines between luxury and streetwear, Abloh embodied a new way forward for his industry \u2014 and in her spellbinding new biography, Givhan shows that Abloh\u2019s story is the story of a revolution in fashion and culture, a story that upends a century\u2019s worth of ideas about race, class, creativity, and taste. Hear Givhan tell that story \u2014 from his early career as an architect to his complex relationship with mentor Kanye West to his meteoric rise and tragic death at 41 of a rare form of cancer \u2014 honoring the legacy of a singular creative force whose influence is still rippling through American culture. \u201cRobin\u2019s look into the life and work of the late, great, Virgil Abloh is thoughtful, intelligent, honest, and masterfully crafted. Virgil\u2019s freethinking and influence on the possibilities of what creativity can be was a tour de force.\u201d \u2014 Marc Jacobs ","author_name":"92NY Talks","author_url":"https:\/\/www.92ny.org\/archives\/featured-series\/talks-podcast","html":"