{"id":45296,"date":"2021-11-29T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=45296"},"modified":"2021-12-18T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T21:34:11","slug":"fashion-designer-virgil-abloh-has-passed-away-aged-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/fashion-designer-virgil-abloh-has-passed-away-aged-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Designer Virgil Abloh has passed away aged 41"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Off- White designer\u2019s family had\u00a0broken the news of\u00a0his death\u00a0via\u00a0his\u00a0Instagram,\u00a0revealing his two-year\u00a0private battle with cardiac\u00a0angiosarcoma, a violent form of cancer.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cHe chose to endure his battle privately since his diagnosis in 2019, undergoing numerous challenging treatments, all while helming\u00a0several<\/em>\u00a0significant\u00a0institutions<em>\u00a0that span fashion, art and culture\u201d<\/em>, his family uncovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ajplus\/status\/1469860809220182018\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault&nbsp;said,&nbsp;\u201cWe are all shocked by this terrible news. Virgil was not only a genius designer and a visionary,&nbsp;he&nbsp;was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe LVMH family joins me in this moment of great\u00a0sorrow,\u00a0and we are all thinking of his loved ones on the passing of their husband, father, brother, son and friend\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/LouisVuitton\/status\/1465025206460862475\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Virgil\u2019s unexpected death has shocked&nbsp;the world and the fashion industry. But his name and&nbsp;impact&nbsp;will inspire and never be forgotten.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Written by: Rinah Mungombe Subbed by Gizdem Albayrak<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Off- White designer\u2019s family had\u00a0broken the news of\u00a0his death\u00a0via\u00a0his\u00a0Instagram,\u00a0revealing his two-year\u00a0private battle with cardiac\u00a0angiosarcoma, a violent form of cancer.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHe chose to endure his battle privately since his diagnosis in 2019, undergoing numerous challenging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":47301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47303,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45296\/revisions\/47303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}