Virgil Abloh's Louis Vuitton Runway Show Bigger Than Fashion

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 In the gardens of Paris’s Palais- Royale Virgil Abloh brought a rainbow colored board to life in a crisp yet chic MONUMENTAL display at the Louis Vuitton Men’s Runway show.

Virgil Abloh is more of a force to be reckoned with then many might have speculated. Here are Blacklght’s top 5 reasons Virgil is making history apart from being named Louis Vuitton’s first black creative director.

• From reportedly inviting 3,000 art students from all over the world to attend the debut according to fashionista.com
• Giving each model an ethnical identity by giving a world diagram depicting their birthplace. So they are no longer anonymous bodies modeling clothes.
• Creating a sense of inclusion, giving a voice to those who usually feel unheard
• Inclusion for those who previously haven’t seen themselves or their ideas represented on runways or mass media 
• Representation

​Aside from the clothes (just for a moment) aside from the celebs, fashion is the realm where stances beyond the material things can be made and we are a stan for Mr. Abloh for bringing to light the importance to things that are ‘usually hidden’.