Make It Ours

Make It Ours is the best book on the luxury business since Teri Agins’ Hijacking the Runway. * Financial Times *
A remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race. * Rolling Stone *
Toggling between biography and cultural history, Givhan … offers an illuminating analysis of [Virgil] Abloh’s middle-class, first-generation American upbringing, one that suggests his quiet confidence and seeming unflappability were deliberately cultivated. * New York Times *
Robin’s look into the life and work of the late, great, Virgil Abloh is thoughtful, intelligent, honest and masterfully crafted. Virgil’s freethinking and influence on the possibilities of what creativity can be was a tour de force. * Marc Jacobs *
Virgil was a rule breaker who always had his finger on the pulse, and Robin Givhan’s unique perspective and meticulous research expertly chronicles his unconventional path and meteoric rise in fashion. Thought-provoking, emotional, and illuminating, this book is a definite must-read! * Tom Ford *
Virgil’s journey from humble beginnings to the top of the fashion industry is one that needs to be studied. Make It Ours is a thrilling journey into the mind of a genius. * Edward Enninful, former editor in chief of British Vogue *
Virgil Abloh … changed the way upper echelons of the [fashion] industry engage with younger generations and even social media. In Make It Ours, [Robin Givhan] captures that shift with the kind of clarity and nuance that honors the late designer’s many layers. * Essence *
Legendary … incisive and unflinching … One of [Givhan’s] gifts is the acute power of observation. * SSENSE Magazine *
Robin Givhan’s powerful new book explores a fashion legacy — and a life — that stretched far beyond labels… The book is less a biography than it is a study of success in fashion and culture: the parameters around it, the roadblocks toward it, the precedents others have set for it. * Harper’s Bazaar *
What makes Givhan’s book so compelling is not only her analysis of the designer’s creativity and ambition, but the historical context she builds around it — a reminder why she is an American icon in her own right. * Interview *

Robin Givhan is Washington Post’s senior critic-at-large, writing about politics, race, and the arts. Previously, she covered the fashion industry as a business, as a cultural institution, and as pure pleasure. She is the Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism and author of The Battle of Versailles. In addition to the Post, Givhan has worked at Newsweek/Daily Beast, Vogue, and the Detroit Free Press. During her most recent tenure at The Post, in addition to fashion, Givhan covered Michelle Obama during the first year of the administration.

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