"Racial equity has never been more important in the rarified worlds of art and fashion. Yet both industries’ commitment runs only skin deep. While Abloh enjoys unparalleled success, brilliantly inventive African-American designers like Telfar Clemens and Shayne Oliver are struggling to maintain their creative independence. Clemens’s eponymous brand Telfar and Oliver’s now-defunct Hood By Air have been idea mills for conglomerates like LVMH, which, in the end have chosen to anoint their company man. If we take Abloh at his word, we shouldn’t buy it."