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In A World Where You Can Be Anything Be Inclusive Educator Life Shirt! One World, a Penguin Random House imprint, will publish after Work in Progress, the book Virgil Abloh began writing before his death in 2021, the publisher announced exclusively to Vogue. Work in Progress, co-authored by the late Off-White founder, visionary and artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton and Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, founder and editor-in-chief of Vestoj, will be a “hybrid work combining cultural criticism, theory, art, and personal narrative,” according to the publisher. It still has no publication date. “For several years before his death, Abloh sought refuge in intellectual, theoretical, and imaginative conversations with Aronowsky Cronberg about his work,” One World told Vogue. "Work in Progress is the culmination of their dialogue, a book that illuminates the ideas behind Abloh's incredible process and practice." Nicole Counts, the senior editor of One World, calls the book "the perfect blend of structured and lively storytelling with a meditative and imaginative look into the mind, hands-on practice. and the philosophy of a visionary”.
Aronofsky Cronberg said she and Abloh started working on the book a few years ago. “We rely on the conversations we are having: face-to-face, by phone, by email, in message threads. We talked about Virgil's process and 'logic', as well as about the central ideas of his practice irony and seriousness, hybridity, paradox, the value of originality, and the 'good' taste control, she told Vogue. “We challenged and learned from each other and it was through this ongoing dialogue and friendship that the idea of Work in Progress was born. In A World Where You Can Be Anything Be Inclusive Educator Life Shirt! Their aim, Aronowsky Cronberg explains, is to “have been and are, informally bringing in big ideas, but also (re)framing fashion as an art, an industry, and a practice. every day, it is both an important space for critical thinking and a place for dynamic intellectual and cultural exchange. Following Abloh's death at the age of 41 last November, Aronowsky Cronberg is relying on extensively taped conversations with the designer to complete Work in Progress, with "the full support of his wife." access to his archive, Shannon Abloh, and the involvement of his closest collaborators and creative friends,” One World said in a statement. “Work in Progress is a portrait of an icon, an intellectual biography as bold and experimental as its subject.”