The hoodies selling for up to 572 euros a piece ($640) mix Leonardo male nudes and paintings like "Saint Anne" with the four-arrowed logo of Abloh's ultra-hip Off-White label. Fans of the streetwear guru Abloh queued through the night last month to snap up a range of homewear he designed for a collaboration with budget furniture chain Ikea. It included a backlit reproduction of Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" (159 euros) from the Louvre and a green synthetic turf rug bearing the legend, "Wet grass". Beyonce and Jay-Z"I wanted to create a fertile collision between fashion and high art, Abloh said of his Leonardo-inspired streetwear. The Louvre for its part said that it "rejoiced that such a multi-faceted artist as Virgil Abloh" had been inspired by its collections.

Source: The Local December 14, 2019 07:30 UTC