er, like so many teenagers, he did not know where his professional path should take him. “As a kid, I didn’t care at all about my education. Later on I thought, oh, maybe I’m interested in something like a niche culture, a street culture in the 90s, hiphop, or rock-and-roll. Although probably, I would have a regular job, like a 9 to 5 thing.” Why his Ghanaian parents named him after a Roman poet, is unclear to him. “I do not know where they got
that name from, but I think they may have seen it in a movie.” After high school, he studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which he found cool but unfulfilling. He completed a course in Renaissance art history before earning his Masters degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. THE COLOR BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK – After graduating in 2009, he worked for
Fendi. At the same time Kanye West was also working at the Italian fashion house, he shaved the Fendi logo on his hair and like Virgil was paid $ 500 a month. Here he also gets to know the then CEO of Fendi, Michael Burke. In the company’s office in Rome, Italy, the two start their collaboration. One year later, West appoints Virgil Creative Director of his creative agency DONDA and in 2011, asks him to act as Artistic Director of