“Telfar is fashion that doesn’t make you feel insecure.”

At New York’s Irving Plaza in February, hundreds of immaculately dressed bodies packed tightly together in a moshpit before a stage. They were in attendance, not for a concert, but for the latest Telfar show – courtesy of designer Telfar Clemens and creative director Babak Radboy. In America’s current, terrifyingly unstable political climate, Telfar’s AW19 collection saw the duo tackle the poignant idea of ‘country’, in collaboration with queer playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who has been creating space for those considered ‘other’ in the world of theatre via his acclaimed off-Broadway plays, Daddy and Slave Play.

Read Telfar: the wild bunch on Dazed.

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