ICONS: Something’s Off Virgil Abloh Book Nike Off-White

Description: ICONS: Somethings Off Virgil Abloh Book Nike Off-White. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class. 2016, sportswear manufacturer Nike and fashion designer Virgil Abloh joined forces to create a sneaker collection celebrating 10 of the Oregon-based companys most iconic shoes. With their project The Tenwhich reimagines icons like Air Jordan 1, Air Max 90, Air Force 1, and Zoom Vaporfly, among otherstheyreinvigorated sneaker culture. Virgil Ablohs new designs offer deep insights into engineering ingenuity and burst with cultural cachet. Drawing on the genius of the original shoe using lettering, ironic labels, collage, and sculpting techniques, Abloh plays with language and sculptural elements to construct new meaning. Inspired by the wit of Dadaism, architectural theory, and avant-garde happenings, he analyzes what makes each shoe iconic and deconstructs it into an artistic assemblage, making each shoe into a piece of industrial design, a readymade sculpture, and a wearable all at once. Iconstraces Ablohs investigative, creative process through documentation of the prototypes, original text messages from Abloh to Nike designers, and treasures from the Nike archives. We find Swooshes sliced away from Air Jordans and reapplied with tape or thread, Ablohs typical text fragments in quotation marks on Air Force 1, and All Stars cut into pieces. We take a look behind the scenes and witness Ablohs DIY approach, which gives each model in the Off-WhiteTM c/o Nike collection its own unique touch. Texts by Nikes Nicholas Schonberger, writer Troy Patterson, curator and historian Glenn Adamson, and Virgil Abloh himself frame the collaborative work within fashion and design history. A lexicon in the second part of the book explains the scene from which the project grew and introduces the people, places, objects, ideas, materials, and expressions that form the foundation of sneaker culture as a whole. Biographies: Born in Rockford, Illinois,Virgil Ablohis a multi-hyphenate creative that often rejects classification on creativity. He operates in the realms of Art, Design, and Culture in conjunction with advocacy, mentoring, and philanthropy in the spaces he occupies. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a masters degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago. At IIT, while studying a Bauhaus design curriculum devised by Mies van der Rohe, Abloh began to craft the principles of his broader art practice. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presented a major traveling survey of Ablohs work in summer 2019one of the highest attended exhibitions in the museums history. Currently, Abloh is the Chief Creative Director and founder of Off-White and Mens Artistic Director at Louis Vuitton, amongst other endeavors. Nike NIKE, Inc., based near Beaverton, Oregon, is the worlds leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Converse, a wholly owned NIKE, Inc. subsidiary brand, designs, markets and distributes athletic lifestyle footwear, apparel and accessories. Quotes: That shape is something that came from the past. But Im recontextualizing it to make it say something else about sneaker culture. Virgil Abloh Michael Jordan was the baseline that rewired my whole brain. Because the guy basically flies. Virgil Abloh My favorite Jordans were black ones, which is already a crazy look the shoes were like the epitome of that cultural moment. They looked like nothing else that was out. That was my entry point into the mystique of sneakers, not the object, its the object itself plus the aura that exceeds it. Virgil Abloh The shoes displayed within this books pages are windows to engineering ingenuity, cultural cachet, and leaps in human potential. Nicholas Schonberger The book celebrates a particular approach to making that acknowledges the power of unifying all the intangible threads of sneaker culture. Nicholas Schonberger.

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