![]() ![]() Hope is opening doors, and that is something Virgil did beautifully until the very end.” Hope springs eternal. He explained: “The show is a celebration, and it’s also about hope. All the models were new faces, something Kamara said reflected the doors in the set design. The most-worn womenswear family of shoes all shared heels based on slinky springs: funny, but also connected to another subject of the show that Kamara shared. The very Off-White, unfinished, “work in progress” concept was expressed through tailoring with slashed and apparently half-constructed elements, plus puffer jackets and Out Of Office sneakers with trailing lines of stitching at their seams. There was also a great knit menswear suit, unadorned, that reflected the sartorial expression of form but also allowed for free and elastic movement. On the knitwear, thin braided ropelets were precisely applied on top of fine-gauge shells to create more reefs of contour that mapped out the bodies beneath. Stitching was used to trace a contour map of the muscles and organs beneath on suiting, and later printed X-rays repeated the trick on more suiting and denim: The clothes were wearing an imprint of the body within. The holes were used to expose the navel on patched leather dresses and workwear, feminized tailoring, shirtdresses, and the knitwear that was a highlight of the collection. The collection followed the brief imaginatively, while reemphasizing the founder’s codes. “Virgil was always thinking ahead,” he added. Kamara said the team had taken the original brief-an exploration of the human body-and built on it. ![]() This collection was, at its earliest stages, conceived and started by Abloh before his death in 2021. It’s a broader role than I expected when I stepped into it, and it’s a beautiful role, and I am very lucky.” And although my role is image-based, I was able to investigate with the team as they built this collection. Asked to characterize his role, especially in relation to this collection, Kamara said: “The beauty of Off-White is that you are involved in every single detail of the brand. After tonight’s show for Off-White, the brand Abloh founded, Ibrahim Kamara said: “It’s about celebrating him and his legacy.” Nobody has succeeded Abloh in his role at Off-White-because who could?-but Kamara was named the Image and Art Director of the brand by CEO Andrea Grilli in April to help pilot it forward.
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