{"id":128712,"date":"2018-06-02T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/virgil-abloh-x-ikea-the-first-images\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T11:00:45","slug":"virgil-abloh-x-ikea-the-first-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/virgil-abloh-x-ikea-the-first-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil Abloh x Ikea, the first images"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n\t#foogallery-gallery-53456 .fg-image {\r\n        width: 640px;\r\n    }\r\n<\/style>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-ready\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-53456\" 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fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ikea-virgil-abloh-paul-mccobb-chair-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"166259\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2018\/06\/ikea-virgil-abloh-paul-mccobb-chair-01\/3272419717.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22640%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ikea-Virgil-Abloh1-640x426.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"166260\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2018\/06\/Ikea-Virgil-Abloh1-640x426\/984415308.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22640%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fiv-prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">5<\/span><\/label>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fiv-next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Virgil Abloh<\/strong> announced his anticipated collaboration with Swedish furniture giant <strong>IKEA<\/strong> earlier this year. Titled <strong>\u201cMARKERAD\u201d<\/strong>, the collection features everything from a <strong>carpet<\/strong> emblazoned with his iconic<strong> Off-White\u2122<\/strong> font, to <strong>IKEA<\/strong>\u2019s recognizable <strong>Frakta bags<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The collection<strong> will be available and accessible to everyone<\/strong>; in addition there will be no restrictions on the sale: everything you see can be purchased.<\/p>\n<p>But there is an article in particular that has attracted our attention: the <strong>chair<\/strong> created in the 50s by <strong>Paul McCobb<\/strong> for the Planner Group series.\u00a0Comparing the two chairs, <strong>Virgil<\/strong>&#8216;s design is almost identical to the old classic, only showing off the detail of the <strong>red doorstop<\/strong> added to one of the legs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virgil Abloh<\/strong> and <strong>IKEA<\/strong>\u2019s creative leader <strong>Henrik Most<\/strong> previously spoke about the upcoming collection, stating that, \u201c<em>It wouldn\u2019t really make sense to introduce another chair as a kind of replica of something that has already been done, if we want to reinterpret the design history we need to twist it, we need to take it to another level and make it more relevant for today.\u201d<\/em> <strong>Abloh<\/strong> also added, <em>\u201cThat\u2019s why I try to embed an artistic quality in things that you already have. So the chair has elevated because it feels more like an art object than a typical chair that just serves it functions with four equal legs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For other accessories instead, we just have to wait for updates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53451\" src=\"\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/virgil-abloh-make-rad-ikea-collaboration-chair-design-designboom-1200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"629\" data-id=\"53451\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil Abloh announced his anticipated collaboration with Swedish furniture giant IKEA earlier this year. Titled \u201cMARKERAD\u201d, the collection features everything from a carpet emblazoned with his iconic Off-White\u2122 font, to IKEA\u2019s recognizable Frakta bags. The collection will be available and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,69417,705,69445],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128712"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=128712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}