The Celebrities We Lost in 2021

Virgil Abloh - 41

Virgil Abloh was a well-known fashion designer and entrepreneur. He was the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear line starting in 2018, and was given increased creative responsibilities across the LVMH brand in early 2021. Abloh was also the CEO of Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2013. He passed away in November of 2021 from cancer, a diagnosis he had kept out of the press. 

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