Speaking of ubiquity, one thing I admire about Virgil is that he gave pretty much everyone in fashion, music, and design his personal cell phone number. As part of his open-source approach to the creative project of living an interesting life, he gave the same 10 digits not just to Drake, Marc Jacobs, and Bernard Arnault, but to scores of random aspiring photographers and T-shirt designers.

One of Abloh’s pitch-perfect ideas was to write “VIRGIL WAS HERE” on fans’ sneakers. But the bigger accomplishment is that Virgil was everywhere.