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Make It Ours

Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

Robin Givhan

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Penguin (Cornerstone)
27 October 2026
A groundbreaking chronicle of the life and legacy of Virgil Abloh from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, Robin Givhan

In 2018, Louis Vuitton appointed a designer with no formal training to be the head of menswear - the first Black director in the brand's 164-year history, upending a century's worth of ideas about luxury and taste.

Recounting Virgil Abloh's remarkable ascent to the top, Make It Ours unearths how the cloistered, exclusive fashion world faced a revolution from below, dressed in graphic t-shirts and sneakers.

With unparalleled access to Abloh's family, collaborators, and contemporaries like Ozwald Boateng and Kanye West, Givhan weaves a spellbinding biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury.
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Imprint:   Penguin (Cornerstone)
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   200g
ISBN:   9781804943649
ISBN 10:   1804943649
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Robin Givhan is Washington Post's senior critic-at-large, writing about politics, race, and the arts. Previously, she covered the fashion industry as a business, as a cultural institution, and as pure pleasure. She is the Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism and author of The Battle of Versailles. In addition to the Post, Givhan has worked at Newsweek/Daily Beast, Vogue, and the Detroit Free Press. During her most recent tenure at The Post, in addition to fashion, Givhan covered Michelle Obama during the first year of the administration

Reviews for Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

Make It Ours is the best book on the luxury business since Teri Agins' Hijacking the Runway. * Financial Times * A remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race. * Rolling Stone * Toggling between biography and cultural history, Givhan . . . offers an illuminating analysis of [Virgil] Abloh’s middle-class, first-generation American upbringing, one that suggests his quiet confidence and seeming unflappability were deliberately cultivated. * New York Times * Robin’s look into the life and work of the late, great, Virgil Abloh is thoughtful, intelligent, honest and masterfully crafted. Virgil’s freethinking and influence on the possibilities of what creativity can be was a tour de force. * Marc Jacobs * Virgil was a rule breaker who always had his finger on the pulse, and Robin Givhan’s unique perspective and meticulous research expertly chronicles his unconventional path and meteoric rise in fashion. Thought-provoking, emotional, and illuminating, this book is a definite must-read! * Tom Ford * Virgil’s journey from humble beginnings to the top of the fashion industry is one that needs to be studied. Make It Ours is a thrilling journey into the mind of a genius. * Edward Enninful, former editor in chief of British Vogue *


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