LCC-002

DRAFT

Virgil Abloh

1980–2021 · age 41

Designer / architect / creative director / Founder of Off-White; Men's Artistic Director, Louis Vuitton

United States · SECONDARY

This record is in draft. Documentation is incomplete. Density figures describe the present corpus of public events, not a closed biographical judgment.

Life-course timeline

LIFE-COURSE TIMELINE

  1. 2002

    EDUCATION

    Civil Engineering degree.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  2. 2006

    EDUCATION

    Master's degree in Architecture.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  3. 2012

    EMPLOYMENT

    Development of PYREX VISION / Off-White.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  4. 2013

    EMPLOYMENT

    Off-White established as fashion label.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  5. 2015

    STATUS

    LVMH Prize finalist.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  6. 2018

    March 2018

    EMPLOYMENT

    Appointed Men's Artistic Director at Louis Vuitton.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  7. 2018

    March 2018

    STATUS

    Appointed Men's Artistic Director at Louis Vuitton.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  8. 2021

    STATUS

    LVMH acquires majority stake in Off-White LLC.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

  9. 2021

    28 November 2021

    DEATH

    Death publicly confirmed at age 41.

    Cause: UNKNOWN

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Virgil Abloh

Structural metric

COMPRESSION WINDOW

Life-course compression describes the accumulation of documented transitions. It is not a medical or mortality score.

2015–2018

Transitions
3
Domains
2
Interval
32

months

STATUS · EMPLOYMENT

12-month event density

2

2 domains

36-month event density

3

2 domains

60-month event density

4

2 domains

Transition interval

Median 32 months

MODERATE EVENT DENSITY

Two documented transitions appear within a 12-month interval.

Event density describes documented life-course change. It does not indicate medical or mortality risk.

Epistemic register

STRUCTURAL OBSERVATION

Statements are labeled by kind. INFERENCE describes sequence or co-occurrence. It does not assign cause, motive, or medical meaning.

OBSERVATION

Documented transitions crossed engineering, architecture, independent fashion, and global luxury institutions.

INFERENCE

Independent label work appears in sequence with later institutional appointment. This describes order, not cause.

UNKNOWN

No source in this record authorizes a relationship between occupational intensity, career growth, illness, or death.

Other observations