Four People on Why They Love Telfar’s “Anti-Fashion” Approach

“My uniform is a white tank top, I wear them all the time. I’m wearing one right now. I have this one [Telfar] tank top where he’s kind of subverted where the head hole and the armhole should be – it’s my special one that I wear when I want to elevate by white tank top-ness. It’s my first piece of Telfar, my most treasured piece of Telfar. Of course I have the bags. They’ve become such a symbol of pride and belonging for people.

“[What I admire about his approach] is that it’s so anti-fashion. I just love that. He’s so interested in escaping the binaries of what the industry says you have to do, and with it he just gets more and more success. He wins the CFDA and finds a way out of fashion; he eschews fashion shows and just has a 24-hour TV streaming service, where you can watch people like you buy things; or [he] just uses the brand as a means of entertainment.

“Most importantly, I just have incredible respect for someone who’s able to show up into spaces and be really, really unapologetically themselves and what they’re about. And it’s totally OK if people don’t like it and don’t understand it. He just has his own radical self-belief. And he’s that person.”“I met Telfar for the first time around 2013, when he and Babak were creative directing a shoot for a African swimwear brand. I was modelling and it actually was one of my first official shoots.

“Telfar’s approach to fashion is his approach to life: everybody’s included! Everyone should be having a good time! That’s so admirable because being a Black designer in this fashion world you would think he’d be pressed about ’coverage’ and acceptance from fashion houses, but no – he’s just here to do his thing and have a good time doing it. It just feels real to be in a Telfar look. It’s so much more than how good I look, it represents Black gay power all in one.

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