The World Isn’t Everything
“It’s not like we are leaving New York, the film is helping us be in a lot of different places,” the 34-year-old designer tellswhen we meet him and Telfar artistic director and partner, Babak Radboy, ahead of the show. “We don't really identify with any one place; we're not even at home in America.” Here, Clemens and Radboy trace the steps that brought Telfar across the Atlantic to the French capital for spring/summer 2020.Telfar Clemens
As we found out, no one has ever shown on the schedule in two [of the Big Four] cities in one season before, because the FHCM [Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode] doesn’t allow it; we want to change that one day. For now, we’re treating the New York film screening as a kind of on schedule preview, while in Paris we’re showing off-schedule, but with the blessing of the FHCM. It’s like we are taking the Telfar show on tour.