Prolific fashion designer Virgil Abloh has created a capsule collection in collaboration with Paris's Musée du Louvre that includes tee-shirts and hoodies decorated with paintings by Leonardo da Vinci.
The collection produced by Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh was created to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death.

Abloh, who is the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection, as well as an artist, DJ and entrepreneur, developed the clothing items for the ready-to-wear streetwear brand he founded in 2012.
The capsule collection combines Off-White's signature markings, including its graphic branding and four-way arrows, with some of da Vinci's most famous paintings.

"I was fascinated with da Vinci early on," said Abloh, who recalled encountering the artist's work during his senior year of high school in Wisconsin. "I was super interested not only by his artworks but also by the influence he had in many disciplines besides art: science, engineering, architecture... To me, he symbolises everything the Renaissance was."

One of the hoodies is printed with a panel depicting the Virgin of the Rocks, while the painting known as Saint Anne is transferred onto the cross motif on the back of one of the tee-shirts.
Other garments feature monochrome representations of da Vinci's anatomical sketches, with the gallery's own logo also displayed prominently alongside the Off-White branding.

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