Virgil Abloh Had Plans to Enter Web3 Space

Paradigm’s Fred Ehrsam has shared a document revealing that Virgil Abloh had been exploring NFTs and DAOs this year. Abloh died of cancer aged 41 Sunday. Read the full article by: Chris Williams

Key Points:

• On Sunday the creator of Off-White and Louis Vuittons creative director for menswear, Virgil Abloh, passed away after privately dealing with a rare form of cancer for the last couple of years. He was an icon in the fashion industry for years and was planning on pushing his reach into the world of web3 as well.

• Before he passed Abloh was exploring launching a DAO as well as NFTs. This goes to show how he was always ahead of the curve as a creative as he also inspired artists to get into the NFT boom. He saw NFTs as a way to "change the balance of power in favor of creators.”

• If Abloh were able to complete his task of creating a DAO it would have put it on the map for all fashion houses and creatives to start doing so as well because that is the kind of influence he had. To see someone of his stature in culture be on board with something that could destroy current flawed systems would have been the push a lot of people needed to shift the paradigm back to the creators.

• This was supposed to be Ablohs first launched NFT which depicts the DAO he was creating smashing through the Louvre in a representation of Web3’s potential to disrupt the traditional art world.