Concept 018: Virgil Abloh Securities
New Concepts@Nordstrom has unveiled Concept 018: Virgil Abloh Securities. In partnership with his estate, the latest iteration of New Concepts is a celebration of Virgil Abloh’s multidisciplinary practice across fashion, art, and culture.
What started as a WhatsApp conversation about reimagining retail evolved into a way to amplify the work of Virgil Abloh Securities across art, architecture, engineering, creative direction, industrial design, fashion, film, writing, and philanthropy. Virgil Abloh Securities is a Virgil Abloh-founded creative corporation that intends to maintain Abloh’s approach and ethos over the coming years.
Spanning fashion, art, music, and culture, the far-reaching practice of late visionary Virgil Abloh fundamentally reshaped how we see creativity and the world around us. True to Abloh’s genre-defying practice and myriad of simultaneous endeavors, Concept 018 unifies several of Abloh’s flagship projects under one banner. That includes his fashion label Off-White, creative studio Alaska Alaska, art store Canary Yellow, and the Church & State merchandise from Abloh’s “Figures of Speech” exhibition.
The shop features a range of women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, shoes, and accessories including an exclusive Off-White Capsule, apparel capsules from Denim Tears x Canary Yellow and American skateboarder Sal Barbier and Off-White. Concept 018 also includes Off-White fragrance as well as apparel and accessories for adults and kids from Abloh’s “Figures of Speech” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
Kicking off with Concept 018, Nordstrom will support the Fashion Scholarship Fund’s Virgil AblohTM “Post- Modern” Scholarship Fund through the fostering of equity and inclusion in the fashion industry by providing scholarships to students of academic promise of Black, African-American, or African descent. The fund will include a direct donation for selected scholars from their fashion program and the opportunity to participate in mentorship sessions with Nordstrom executives to learn about the inner workings of the retail business.
Concept 018: Virgil Abloh Securities is available online and in select stores including the Downtown Seattle Nordstrom now through the end of October.
Photo credit: Jack Koto for Nordstrom
