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artist designed restrooms at the smith college museum of art

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1930s coat study

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Mars and Venus, an Allegory of Peace, 1770

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenee

French, 1725-1805

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Black Designer Profile: Telfar Clemens

directly from the Telfar PRESS KIT For the past eight years Telfar Clemens has been one of New York’s most consistently forward thinking and exciting young designers. Born in New York and raised in Liberia, his line carves a completely unique territory in the fashion landscape by defining a brand which is neither conceptual nor accessible — but both in extremis. This paradox is nowhere more evident than in TELFAR’s design philosophy of simplexity™. Simply put TELFAR is Extremely Normal™. At once highly conceptual and obsessively practical; minimalist and irreverent; countercultural and mainstream; edgy and coyly practical — the line flouts convention by flaunting conventionality. With both feet in the 21st century, the TELFAR consumer is young, urban, plugged in through every orifice and extremely discerning. As other brands struggle with online strategies TELFAR has boldly innovated: showing collections through viral mock-reality videos, using a crowdsourcing app to let fans help design a collection and collaborating with the most relevant young artists and musicians, some of the worlds most established and reputable brands and the hottest press both online and in print. 

ARTIST COLLABORATIONS

Working at the interstices of art and fashion TELFAR has nurtured ongoing collaborations with a number of emergent and established artists and musicians. Foremost among them is Guggenheim Artist of the Year Ryan Trecartin, who produced Telfar’s much acclaimed S/S 2013 video FORMALE;LIFE. 

TELFAR also sat for a series of portraits Trecartin produced for the first annual W Magazine Art Issue and is featured in his feature length film The Encyclopedic Palace which debuted this summer at the Venice Biennale. TELFAR has also engaged with artist Lizzie Fitch for a number of sculptural pieces including the SHOPMOBILE easily collapsible shop-onwheels on which he has shown two collections, featuring a modular construction and 3d printed hands and feet cast from the designers own body. In addition to this TELFAR has worked over the years with renowned musicians such as Fatima Al Qadiri, DJ’s such as Shayne Oliver (HBA) and Venus X as well as groups such as Art Collective cum online magazine DIS and the art collective cum lifestyle brand; SHANZHAI BIENNIAL.

For his A/W 2012 collection TELFAR produced a customized line in collaboration with Opening Ceremony for sale globally in store and online. For TELFAR’s Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter 2011 collections the designer collaborated with Doc Marten boots to create two custom shoe designs. For S/S11’s FORmale collection TELFAR produced a sling back boot with elastic back strap, followed by the layered leather, fleece lined boot for A/W11’s Extreme Layers collection. For TELFAR’s collection entitled Extreme Lengths A/W 2010, the designer collaborated with Converse on footwear for the active individual in extreme conditions, with a winter collecion of athletic shoes that were layered and employed the insulation of patchwork. In his Summer 2008 collection, TELFAR also collaborated with Converse to create the “mandal”, eliminating all plastic from the Converse Classic All-star to effectively create a Summer sandal from within the iconic shoe.

TELFAR has also collaborated with FILA, Reebok, and he continues an ongoing collaboration with American Apparel on his conceptual cotton-based diffusion line, UN.DER T. 

Telfar spring/summer 2014 looks. (Image from Vice)

View last season’s show on Vogue’s website

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august 2023

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Touki Bouki, 1973, dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty

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the hoodoo tarot deck

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getting drunk on a tuesday late afternoon early evening is lowkey the one girl revolution

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black punk

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i was born in the right generation i love teezo touchdown and go go squeeze