Died last November at the age of 41 following an illness, the designer Virgil Abloh, artistic director of the Louis Vuitton men's collections, not only left his mark on the world of fashion.
The American loved the automobile.
He had cooperated with Mercedes designers to deliver his vision of the luxury car of tomorrow.
Wearing the Maybach badge, this free exercise gave birth to a unique work that we were able to discover at the Mercedes advanced style center in Sophia-Antipolis.
Following a monolithic approach, this coupé concept impresses with its dimensions: almost six meters long, of which more than two meters just for the front bonnet, a height of almost two meters.
"The codes of a fighter with the large studded wheels, the front and rear shoes, the headlight ramp fixed to the tubular structure of the gallery covering the roof, were wanted by Virgil"
, told us Steffen Köhl, the director advanced Mercedes design…
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