The first posthumous retrospective of designer Virgil Abloh’s work will take over the Brooklyn Museum this summer. Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, will showcase two decades of work by the American fashion designer, who passed at the age of 41 in November of last year.

“This is the first museum survey exhibition devoted to the late artist and designer Virgil Abloh, whose work reshaped notions of contemporary fashion, art, commerce, design and youth culture,” reads an official press release announcing the news. “The exhibition showcases a mix of fashion, large-scale sculpture, immersive spaces, videos and sketches spanning nearly two decades of Abloh’s career.”

The show will actually build upon an eponymous earlier version that was set up in Chicago in 2019 and then traveled to Boston, Atlanta, and Qatar.

Abloh was a defining figure of the art and fashion world, also a trained architect, and his untimely death following a private battle with cancer shook devotees around the world. Known for being the very first Black creative director at Louis Vuitton, Abloh also made a mark in creative circles by founding Milan-based fashion house Off-White in 2013, still an incredibly popular brand.

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, July 1, 2022-January 29, 2023, More Info HERE