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Telfar Clemens ▶ 11:32 · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · Feb 14, 2022

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q Wow. Can I ask you, can I ask you kind of a, a sort of weird, I don't know, maybe it's not a dumb question. How did you know how to sew?

A Um, I, I got a machine, like, I guess like the first time that Black Friday ever happened. I was in New Jersey, and we went to a Walmart there, and I bought a machine for like, a 150 dollars. And it was like right after my grandmother had passed, who also, she had a sewing school in Liberia. She always wanted to sew our clothes, and we were just like, oh, can we go to the Gap and get, You know, like, whatever we want. She was like, if I had my way, I would sew all of you guys' clothes. We were like, no, no. But, like, strangely, right after she died, I took up sewing, and my aunt Musu, she showed me how to sew. It was bad. Like, I was bad at it, but I knew how to, like, thread a bobbin and put a thread in a machine, and I was deconstructing clothes by that time, so I was, like, seeing how they were put together, so I began to just, like, you know, Put things back together, and I still didn't really know, and I still continued doing that all through college.

AI assessment note: “I took up sewing, and my aunt Musu, she showed me how to sew.”

Telfar Clemens ▶ 8:43 · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · Feb 14, 2022

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q in, in, probably less so today, but definitely then and when I was in high school, and it was easier to just conform, right, to just wear jeans and a t-shirt, um, and not to stand out. But it sounds like you were really comfortable already at 1415, and Expressing yourself through clothing and, and not, I guess, not being worried about what other kids said, or, or were you?

A I think I probably was. That's why I finished school early and got, got out of there and got around people that I felt like I was more like, you know, I don't know. Like also too, it's like, I grew up very, I didn't know what I was going to be, but I was like, I'm not going to be hanging out in Maryland. It's like, I had already seen New York. I used to go there every weekend, you know, I saw what people were up to. So I was just like, this shit is not For me, you know, like, literally the day that I graduated high school was the day that I moved. Like, the first chance that I got, I was out.

AI assessment note: “I think I probably was. That's why I finished school early”

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