'A melting pot of ideas': Ibrahim Kamara on helming Off-White after Virgil Abloh

When, not long after the designer Virgil Abloh’s unexpected death, New Guards Group, the company that manufactured Off-White, Abloh’s fashion label, approached Ibrahim Kamara about taking over the house, no one was more surprised than he. Photo: The New York Times

When, not long after the designer Virgil Abloh’s unexpected death, New Guards Group, the company that manufactured Off-White, Abloh’s fashion label, approached Ibrahim Kamara about taking over the house, no one was more surprised than he.

Kamara was not, after all, a designer. He had never considered being a designer.