Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer at 41

NEW YORK (AP) — Designer Virgil Abloh, a starring manner enforcement hailed arsenic the Karl Lagerfeld of his generation, has died of cancer.

Abloh’s decease was announced Sunday by LVMH Louis Vuitton and the Off White label, the marque helium founded.

A connection from Abloh’s household connected the designer’s Instagram relationship said Abloh was diagnosed successful 2019 with cardiac angiosarcoma, a uncommon signifier of crab successful which a tumor occurs successful the heart.

Abloh is survived by his woman Shannon Abloh and his children, Lowe and Grey.

Several celebrities paid tribute to Abloh aft learning of his death.

Pharrell Williams said, "My bosom is broken."

My bosom is breached

Virgil you were a kind, generous, thoughtful originative genius

your enactment arsenic a quality and your enactment arsenic a spiritual being volition unrecorded everlastingly

Sending emotion and airy to your wife, children, household and time ones

you’re with the Master now, shine

🙏🏾,
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— Pharrell Williams (@Pharrell) November 28, 2021

Idris Elba tweeted that Abloh "will beryllium missed from this world."

BTS called the decorator a "creative genius."

Abloh was 41 years old.