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Breaking barriers, building bridges
Designer Virgil Abloh bridged hypebeast culture and the luxury world and transformed the meaning of "fashion" itself
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Vanessa Friedman
Virgil Abloh, the barrier-breaking black designer whose ascent to the heights of the traditional luxury industry changed what was possible in fashion, died on Sunday in Chicago after a two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare cancer. He was 41.
His death was confirmed by his family.
