#DRIVING BRILLIANCE PRO#

The way that Joel Embiid is basically a 'weird Twitter' account (in the best way), the Jerry Colangelo secret Twitter account drama, players tweeting memes and cryptic emojis at each other and the hot takes that follow, NBA heads like Shea Serrano becoming famous in their own rights because of their writing and depth of knowledge of the game.is just amazing and endlessly entertaining. and viewership is slumping (down 10% this past season!), the NBA's viewership is up across the board on all networks, across both the regular season and the playoffs, its athletes are right up there with the world's biggest soccer stars as celebrity goes, and NBA Twitter is arguably the best 'niche' Twitter there is. While the NFL is floundering around in the mess that is concussions/Trump/anthem protest mishandling/etc.

#DRIVING BRILLIANCE PRO#

The most athlete-centric of all pro sports, the league has let their players be themselves more than any other - as it should be - and they're reaping some pretty incredible benefits. I bought a classic one, which I still have, and he bought the white Murakami design of course. And its all over his new collection.reimagined in new colors with plastic and ceramic replacing leather, attached to a vest, the outfit Kim Kardashian wore has them directly affixed, etc.it's everywhere.visible and invisible.ДЇull circle, after all the emails and blog posts.that first time Virgil and I hung for a weekend in NYC, in 2006, at the Soho Louis Vuitton store.we each purchased a Wapity. It's perfectly 'Virgil' in so many ways literally and figuratively. It's this tiny soft-trunk looking thing with a carabiner clip and leather strap.an accessible, ironic, hand-held reference to the massive hard trunks that LV is so well known for. The Wapity bag which, until June 21 2018-the day of his first show as Louis Vuitton's artistic director, had been discontinued.is back. We met at the airport arrivals, jumped in a cab and headed to Hotel Rivington, dropped our stuff, and headed out to our first stop, a shared personal favorite.the Louis Vuitton store in Soho. I believe it was the same year he started writing for us that we both decided a trip to NYC to shop would be fun, and to check out his friend, Gabe Stulman's, newly opening restaurant in the West Village called The Little Owl. Meanwhile, we'd never met in person.ever, just email. A bit before then, he was working at an architecture firm in Chicago, occasionally DJing at some sushi spot he invited me to, doing pop-up concept shop-esque things with his friends under the name Fort Home (I think?), and just starting to get plugged in with Kanye's camp via Don C. He was excited, exceptionally gracious as always, and.really fucking good at the abstract, interconnected, weird, insightful kind of content we've always had on this site. Instead, I ended up staying in touch via email, chatting about his work in architecture, culture stuff, etc.eventually Chuck and I got quite busy and thought a third writer would make sense.so we hit him up.

Though, it was one of the better pitches as it included a couple sample posts he whipped up.

We got a decent amount of these emails at the time.so we declined. I met Virgil when he cold emailed us asking to write on the site in like 2006. So instead I figured I'd write about the context, specifically through my lens as a close friend of his for the past 10+ years. While, yeah, I love fashion/style/etc and whatever that has come to mean.I don't feel quite qualified to write about the clothes from the collection. 'Incredible' just ends up feeling a bit.short. In fact, that was an incredibly common sentiment from anyone who was at the show, friends/family of his, kids in the scene, and probably beyond. Can't find the words to describe how it feels. To be writing this post.on THE BRILLIANCE!!1.in Paris.about this topic.after attending my first Louis Vuitton fashion show.

Driving brilliance