The Fashion Designers, Moguls and Creatives We Lost in 2021: Notable Deaths of the Year

Though 2021 has been a strong year for the fashion industry, it’s also been one of tremendous loss. Legendary creative talents Alber Elbaz and Virgil Abloh both died this year — huge losses in the world of fashion design and creativity. Albaz, who died from COVID-19, was credited with reviving Lanvin throughout his 2001-2015 tenure, and recent launched his new fashion label AZ Factory this year. Abloh, the game-changing founder of Off-White and artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton, died last month from complications with cancer. Abloh was notably the first Black designer at the helm of a French fashion house. Visionary executive George Malkemus, the devoted business partner to Manolo Blahnik and Sarah Jessica Parker, died this September after battling cancer. Legendary retailers Fred Segal and Dawn Mello also passed this year, as well as renowned fashion journalist Richard Buckley, one half of one of fashion’s power couples with Tom Ford. Below, we look back on the fashion figures who died in 2021. Virgil Abloh Virgil Abloh at the finale of his Louis Vuitton show in June 2018. CREDIT: WWD Virgil Abloh, 41, passed from the rare cancer cardiac angiosarcoma after battling it for two years. He was the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collections

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