Virgil Abloh — And Mos Def — Had a Lot to Say In Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall 2021 Show

Yesterday, Amanda Gorman read an inaugural poem that shook the collective soul of the U.S. Today, Virgil Abloh echoed that spoken word with his own message of the Black experience and hope for social justice, folded into a short film showcasing his fall ’21 men’s collection for Louis Vuitton. He had a little help from his friends, namely the rapper Mos Def (now publicly known by his given name Yasiin Bey) and artist, poet and musician Saul Williams. Both starred in Abloh’s “Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light,” which set their words and lyrics to his latest looks for the French luxury house. The film began in a snowy alpine landscape with dreamy harp soundtrack, Williams walking with a chrome logo suitcase in hand across a wide swath of land as his voiceover spoke: “My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me,” he says. The scene is a reference to “Stranger in the Village,” a 1953 essay by James Baldwin that details the writer’s experience as an African-American man visiting a Swiss village. Saul Williams in Louis Vuitton fall '21. CREDIT: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton Williams moved on to a scene set with speed skaters, curiously

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