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Telfar Clemens

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first: 2022-02-14
most recent: 2022-02-14
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“And just to create an image in the mind's eye, When you describe a triple t shirt, I think what you're describing is something that went down, was like vertical, right?”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“drawing your inspiration from like because I think initially you really were working with like t-shirts right t-shirts yeah”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So when you got to New York and you started to take your designs to the lower east side, you were 18, what would you say when you would walk into the stores, you would say, hi, I'm Telvar Clemens. I'm a designer. This is my line. What was your pitch?”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's quite amazing. I mean, were you nervous? I think of myself as an 18 year old, and I think I'd be so nervous to walk in and think, oh, are they going to talk to me? I'm just a kid.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that you moved in with one of your aunts in Queens, but that summer before you started college. You started to sell the garments that you would make from these t shirts. On Laurie Site, on Mulberry Street You just set up like a table on the street. So, too.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the story that I've read is that you went to New York because you were going to enroll at Pace University in the fall to study, actually study business and accounting.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How did you just figure it out? I mean, because sewing like any craft, carpentry, or anything, any art, anything, it's very complicated like anything. You said you were bad at it at the beginning. I was bad at it.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, you would literally take these t shirts that you got. From these guys in DC and just kind of very gently cut along the seams and deconstruct the shirts into parts and reconstruct them into Different garments”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you knew Telfar, you knew already in high school that you were going to get out of the suburbs and go to a city in probably New York. And clothing was a way that you expressed yourself, but it doesn't sound like At that point in your life, you knew that you were going to go into the clothing world, right? I mean, you kind of had a, or am I wrong? Was that something that already as a teenager you thought, I really like this?”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. I'm just totally blown away at how confident you seem to have been at such a young age to because a lot of kids in probably less so today, but definitely then and when I was in high school and It was easier to just conform, to just wear jeans in a t-shirt. And not to stand out. But it sounds like you were really comfortable already at fourteen, fifteen, expressing yourself through clothing and I guess not being worried about what other kids said or were you?”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it sounds like even though there was some tension between you and your parents, that it was a very loving relationship. Is that fair to say?”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How were you able to buy it? I mean, I'm assuming that your parents, they were middle class, right? Because your dad was an accountant.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like going to the shopping mall, whatever it might be. What do you remember about the things that you were interested in in middle school?”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I find in my interviews that middle school is the first time when most of us start to Find things in our lives that are more interesting, more sophisticated, music. Trevor Burrus”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Redefines the concept of luxury and then makes it big. And part of that interpretation is real. But there's another part of the story, a more complicated one, a story of two outsiders who are shut out of an industry with specific rules and codes, who then rejected the system that supported all of that and charted their own path on their own terms. Baba Gradboy first met Telfar in the early two thousands, but he didn't start working with a designer until a few years later. We'll hear a lot more from Babak later in the interview, but for now we'll be hearing a lot from Telfar. He spent much of his early life in Liberia, but his family eventually fled the civil war there and moved to Gathersburg, a suburb just outside Washington, DC.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And accessories for more than 15 years. But for much of that time, Telfar's work was largely ignored by the tastemakers in the fashion industry, and a big part of the brand's success has come from a deliberate strategy of working outside and at times against the fashion industry. Telfar and his creative partner, Baba Radboy, don't go to the Met Gala, they don't attend the major fashion shows, and they don't price their products beyond the reach of most consumers. The designs are simple, genderless, and as Telfar's tagline says, not for you, for everyone. The story of how Telfar got to where he is is not a simple one to tell. As he and Babak reminded me during the interview, there's an easy version, basically young man, child of immigrants, struggles in the big city.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A few years ago, celebrities started to be photographed with a particular handbag. It was shaped like a shopping bag, so think a bloomingdale's type bag, but with two sets of straps, one set to hang over your shoulder, the other to clutch in your hand. Embossed on the bag was the letter T artfully and symmetrically inserted inside the letter C. The T stands for Telfar, the C for Clemens. Telfar Clemens has become one of the hottest fashion designers in the US over the past few years. His brand logo, the T Inside the Sea, seems like it's everywhere. Look around, you'll see it on t-shirts, on sweatpants, on hats, even on the uniforms worn by employees at White Castle. It's almost as if Telfar appeared out of nowhere, except that Telfar Clemens has been designing and selling his apparent.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's how I built this show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Guy Raz, and on the show today how Telfar Clemens and Baba Gradboy came together to build Telfar, a fashion brand that started in the clubs and side streets of New York City and grew into a global phenomenon.”
2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2022-02-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT