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Virgil Abloh Is Into ‘Chic, Plus Air Force 1s’

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If you didn’t manage to get your hands on the custom Off-White jacket Sky Ferreira wears in her “I Blame Myself” video, take heart. Designer Virgil Abloh, who is also Kanye West’s creative director, is launching a women’s collection for fall 2014. The lineup, titled “I Only Smoke When I Drink,” is heavy on artfully ripped jeans and Perfecto jackets. (He summarizes his aesthetic to Style.com: “I just want chic, plus Air Force 1s.”) He also tells the site that his women’s collection was inspired not by specific movies or muses, but by places: “Chateau Marmont, Café Select, The Mercer [Hotel], [The] Westway, 1 Oak.” Presumably the women who hang out there also drop by Browns, Selfridges, Colette, and the Webster, where the line will be sold.

Virgil Abloh Is Into ‘Chic, Plus Air Force 1s’