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Virgil Abloh's intricate, boundary-defying world is rooted in a series of distinct experiences. One of a black American child with Ghanaian heritage, raised on the outskirts of Chicago in a predominantly white neighborhood. One of a child brought up on the rhythms and lyrics of Fela Kuti, James Brown, and Miles Davis. One of an adolescent infected with the skateboarding virus — a virus allowing one to traverse the city on wheels, that operates on a dynamic of vertigo, the body forever teetering between flight and fall. A collective practice, at times criminalized: skateboarding …