‘Virgil was here’: Miami hosts Abloh’s final collection for Louis Vuitton

The designer's last show underlines his rule-breaking attitude to menswear with electrifyingly futuristic garms

Is it too soon?" is the question we ask ourselves, as the final collection from Virgil Abloh goes on show just a few days after the announcement of his death. It may have been one of his final professional wishes - and in keeping with his furious work ethic - to finish the show, yet there's a brutal finality seeing it play out before our eyes.

Emotions are running high as the show, streaming live from Miami, opens with Abloh's voiceover talking about a return to childhood wonderment", while a repeating visual motif of a red hot air balloon suggests Oz and, perhaps, ascension to the afterlife.