New York-based designer Telfar Clemens teams with Babak Radboy of meta-brand Shanzhai Biennial for his forthcoming collection of customizable sportswear, presenting it as an exercise in “mainstream“ surrealism: highly polished, eminently accessible, yet stranger than any underground production. In a mise-en-abyme of branding staged at New York Fashion Week, models emerged from a video curtain displaying their own faces, mirrored those expressions on the runway, and for the finale, reappeared on the t-shirts
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