Nordstrom has announced plans to for a Virgil Abloh pop-up shop featuring items from his “Figures of Speech” exhibit, currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum, which the retailer is sponsoring. Dubbed Concept 018: Virgil Abloh Securities, the shop will also includes Off-White pieces plus items from Alaska Alaska, Abloh’s London-based creative platform as well as his Canary Yellow art store.
In press about the pop-up, Nordstrom executive vice president of Sam Lobban stated, “We are excited and honored to bring Concept 018: Virgil Abloh Securities to fruition. We started working on the project with Virgil and his team back in March 2021, and hope that the end result can help in celebrating his passion, energy and purpose which he brought to every endeavor. We’re grateful to Shannon Abloh and the Virgil Abloh Securities team for the opportunity and are excited for our customers to be able to participate in continuing his legacy.”
Nordstrom’s Concept 018 Virgil Abloh op-up shops will be available online plus at 15 Nordstrom locations: New York, the Seattle flagship and units in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. “Figures of Speech” will be on display at the Brooklyn Museum until January 29th, 2023.
