Robin Givhan

Make It Ours is the best book on the luxury business since Teri Agins' Hijacking the Runway.

A remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race.

Toggling between biography and cultural history, Givhan . . . offers an illuminating analysis of [Virgil] Abloh’s middle-class, first-generation American upbringing, one that suggests his quiet confidence and seeming unflappability were deliberately cultivated.

Robin’s look into the life and work of the late, great, Virgil Abloh is thoughtful, intelligent, honest and masterfully crafted. Virgil’s freethinking and influence on the possibilities of what creativity can be was a tour de force.

Virgil was a rule breaker who always had his finger on the pulse, and Robin Givhan’s unique perspective and meticulous research expertly chronicles his unconventional path and meteoric rise in fashion. Thought-provoking, emotional, and illuminating, this book is a definite must-read!

Virgil’s journey from humble beginnings to the top of the fashion industry is one that needs to be studied. Make It Ours is a thrilling journey into the mind of a genius.

Edward Enninful, former editor in chief of British Vogue

Virgil Abloh . . . changed the way upper echelons of the [fashion] industry engage with younger generations and even social media. In Make It Ours, [Robin Givhan] captures that shift with the kind of clarity and nuance that honors the late designer’s many layers.

Legendary . . . incisive and unflinching . . . One of [Givhan’s] gifts is the acute power of observation.

Robin Givhan’s powerful new book explores a fashion legacy — and a life — that stretched far beyond labels. . . The book is less a biography than it is a study of success in fashion and culture: the parameters around it, the roadblocks toward it, the precedents others have set for it.

What makes Givhan’s book so compelling is not only her analysis of the designer’s creativity and ambition, but the historical context she builds around it — a reminder why she is an American icon in her own right.

Make It Ours is more than a biography of Abloh’s rise and reign in the fashion world. Givhan deftly balances her intimate portrait of him with analysis of how the fashion industry has dealt with race and racism over the past century.

Make It Ours is informed by a deep curiosity. . . The book is filled with industry anecdotes that’ll thrill any fashion fan.

Make It Ours chronicles the intersection of a man and a moment, a time of disruptive change in the fashion industry, and a figure who was uniquely primed to seize that opportunity.

Givhan’s sharp blend of biography, cultural history, and fashion criticism . . . reconsiders the meaning of luxury and who gets to decide.

A brilliant, captivating book. Make It Ours makes the case for a true cultural giant.

Elaine Weltroth, bestselling author of More Than Enough

Make It Ours is the best book on the luxury business since Teri Agins’ Hijacking the Runway

A remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race

Toggling between biography and cultural history, Givhan . . . offers an illuminating analysis of [Virgil] Abloh’s middle-class, first-generation American upbringing, one that suggests his quiet confidence and seeming unflappability were deliberately cultivated

Robin’s look into the life and work of the late, great, Virgil Abloh is thoughtful, intelligent, honest and masterfully crafted. Virgil’s freethinking and influence on the possibilities of what creativity can be was a tour de force.

Virgil’s journey from humble beginnings to the top of the fashion industry is one that needs to be studied. Make It Ours is a thrilling journey into the mind of a genius

Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

Make It Ours

Robin Givhan

Praise for Make It Ours

Make It Ours is the best book on the luxury business since Teri Agins' Hijacking the Runway.

A remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race.

Toggling between biography and cultural history, Givhan . . . offers an illuminating analysis of [Virgil] Abloh’s middle-class, first-generation American upbringing, one that suggests his quiet confidence and ...

Make It Ours is the best book on the luxury business since Teri Agins' Hijacking the Runway.

A remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race.

Toggling between biography and cultural history, Givhan . . . offers an illuminating analysis of [Virgil] Abloh’s middle-class, first-generation American upbringing, one that suggests his quiet confidence and ...

Make It Ours is the best book on the luxury business since Teri Agins' Hijacking the Runway.

A remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race.

Toggling between biography and cultural history, Givhan . . . offers an illuminating analysis of [Virgil] Abloh’s middle-class, first-generation American upbringing, one that suggests his quiet confidence and ...

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