The schedule went ahead as planned on Monday when Off-White showed the last collection designed by founder Virgil Abloh before his death from a rare cancer in November. It was held at the grand Palais Brongniart, home to the French stock exchange until 1998, which seemed an appropriate location for a brand whose owners are confident it can continue to grow without its founder. In July LVMH increased its stake in Off-White to 60 per cent. In an interview with The Business of Fashion, Louis Vuitton chief Michael Burke, who hired Abloh as Vuitton’s artistic director of menswear in 2018, compared the decade-old Off-White to the position the house of Dior was in 1957 when its founder died.
