Virgil Abloh decorated the Off-White™ catwalk with vintage cars

The runway show for Off-White™'s FW20 Womanswear collection yesterday brought to the catwalk, in addition to the new Off-White™ x Air Jordan 4, a series of asymmetrical looks in which two halves of completely different garments were stitched together. The strange and surreal theme of the object split in half was also replicated thematically on the set of the show, made in collaboration with the French workshop L'Art de l'Automobile, which saw five Porsche 924s, four red and a blue one, cut each other for wide and long and laid on the ground as if they emerged from the floor. By transforming cars into real installations, Abloh realized the philosophy of L'Art de l'Automobile and its founder Arthur Kar that motoring, as a fusion of design and mechanics, can be approached as a true artistic discipline.

L'Art de l'Automobile is a workshop and showroom based in Paris, in the first arrondissement, which deals with the customization, restoration, customization and resale of rare luxury and vintage cars. The personality that animates L'Art de l'Automobile is Arthur Kar, who before being a dealer is an avid collector – so passionate, in fact, that at 16 he worked as a mechanic in Porsche garages. This experience, together with his love of vintage luxury cars, led him to create L'Art de l'Automobile, bringing the world of motoring closer with actual couture, reaching the point of having around him a creative team no different from that of a fashion brand and even releasing various merch lines both on its own and in collaboration with Dover Street Market and SSENSE.

It's easy to understand how a designer like Abloh, who has always been interested in the reinvention of the past, vintage and the values of craftsmanship, became a personal friend as well as a collaborator of Arthur Kar, making an appearance last January at his "Out of Gasoline" pop-up with the likes of Daniel Arsham and Heron Preston. Yesterday's show was a new demonstration of how Abloh as a true Renaissance Man constantly tries to bring the best creatives of each discipline together and create a "family" of like-minded artists and personalities to bring their very personal vision.