“I was always attracted to the conceptual advantages that womenswear had over menswear, but growing up I wasn’t allowed by my parents to wear or buy womenswear, so I started to make my own clothes – I wanted to make a line that was genderless and spoke to people like me.”įast-forward a couple of decades, and this idea so simple in its core seems to have snowballed into something quite majestic.
“The clothes I wanted to wear did not exist, especially in the menswear market,” he explains. When he was a kid, Telfar Clemens’ mum and dad had some pretty strict ideas of how he should dress.
