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New Yorker featured Pace University in "Telfar Clemens’s Mass Appeal"
Clemens was born in Queens, to Liberian parents. He started his brand as an undergraduate at Pace University, in 2005. At the time, many of his friends dressed in ways that crossed gender lines, and, a decade before Gucci, Balenciaga, and Tom Ford had coed runway shows, Telfar’s clothes were marketed as unisex. The label was as much an art practice as it was a clothing company, and, for many years, Telfar was worn primarily by a small, knowing cohort of people, the types who frequented the roving New York party GHE20G0TH1K and read the online arts-and-Internet-culture magazine DIS.
