041 - REDDA — Walking for Virgil Abloh in Miami

NOVEMBER 30, 2021 · MIAMI, FL

MIAMI / 11.30.2021 — VIRGIL WAS HERE

On November 30, 2021, Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2022 menswear presentation in Miami became a tribute to Virgil Abloh. The designer had died on November 28, just two days before the scheduled show. A presentation he had helped shape went forward in his memory.

Among the creatives who walked was Redda, the Miami producer and artist whose connection to Abloh crossed music and fashion.

FROM PRODUCTION TO THE RUNWAY

Redda’s appearance placed him inside the visual world of a designer who brought musicians, artists, and emerging talent into luxury fashion. He participated as a model, carrying Abloh’s work down the Miami runway.

Their connection had already taken another form earlier that year, when Redda’s beats featured in an Abloh fashion presentation in Paris. Music in Paris and modeling in Miami were separate contributions to the same wider creative relationship.

Reflecting on that relationship in an April 2022 interview with Our Generation Music, Redda described his admiration for Abloh and the significance of participating in the posthumous show.

THE SHOW WENT ON

Staged at Miami Marine Stadium, the event gathered Abloh’s community around his Spring/Summer 2022 collection. A monumental sculpture and a drone display helped turn the evening into a public remembrance. The message in the sky—“Virgil Was Here”—gave the tribute its enduring words.

For Redda, the runway appearance forms part of a career that moves between making sound and participating in fashion. In this setting, walking also meant helping carry a creative vision forward at a moment of collective loss.

THE KOLAK PERSPECTIVE

KOLAK sees a meaningful connection in that movement between disciplines. A producer shapes the energy surrounding an image; a runway participant brings clothing into motion. Both contribute to how an audience experiences a designer’s ideas.

Redda’s place in this story speaks to the creative community Abloh brought together, and to the possibilities that open when music and fashion share a space.

The runway became a place to remember—and a place for the work to continue.

Archive visibility date: November 30, 2021, the date of the Miami presentation. This story draws on Redda’s later April 2022 interview.

Featured image: Redda portrait via Our Generation Music, April 2022; not a Miami runway photograph.

Sources: Our Generation Music — Redda interview; Reuters — Louis Vuitton’s Miami tribute.