Image: Texas Isaiah
I AM THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR of the film No Fats, No Femmes. My practice considers those [of us] discarded (“the least of these”) and disappeared from Black collective imaginings and networks of care.
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Fresh from her appearance in the second season of Pose, queer multidisciplinary artist Fatima Jamal landed in Florence to take the runway at Stefano Pilati’s AW20 Random Identities show. Taking place in the Italian city’s longest standing train station, the venue was turned into a pulsating underground club bathed in red light, with Jamal taking her turn in a black sequined sheath gown, alongside the likes of Lux Gillespie and Pilati himself.
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While shows like Pose, Euphoria and Work in Progress reflect a moment of unprecedented trans, and broader LGBTQ2, representation in Hollywood, some members of the community, like Fatima Jamal, are rightfully skeptical. It’s not that she isn’t thankful or appreciative of the historic strides that have been and are continuing to be made. Rather, the model, artist and filmmaker questions visibility for visibility’s sake.
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Image Credit: Inez & Vinoodh/Raul Romo
My experience as a trans model is interesting. Beyond the transness, I would say that it is complicated by being plus size. I've been told that I'm very niche and will only book trans-specific work, which, in my opinion, lacks imagination and is super limiting.
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Fashion has a strange fascination with shopping bags. We all remember Louis Vuitton’s controversial take on plaid Chinatown totes, while Vaquera and Public School have straight-up repurposed plastic bags from Key Food and corner stores. Telfar’s unisex vegan tote, called — what else — the Shopping Bag — has an identity all its own. Stamped with Telfar Clemens’s TC logo, it’s one of the brand’s most iconic pieces, and certainly one of its most covetable.
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Telfar Clemens, the savvy, smart talent behind the New York label Telfar, could do a lot after he won the 2017 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, including being able to put back into production his Shopping Bag, a vegan leather tote in different sizes branded with a T for . . . well, no need to ask, “What’s the T?” here.
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