Fatima Jamal On Life As A Body Of Work

A multi-hyphenate in every sense of the word, 28-year-old Jamal is an artist, a dancer, a model, a filmmaker, a writer, and an activist, although she is probably best known for her work as “FatFemme,” her handle on Instagram and in viral circles of the Internet that originated with her ongoing documentary, No Fats No Femmes. In the documentary, the Brooklyn-based artist uses her life and experiences as a black queer femme as both performance art and the platform to explore what it means to not only survive but thrive in a world that others you.

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23 Trans Models Making an Impact on the Fashion Industry — And the World

Artist and writer Fatima Jamal burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking documentary No Fats, No Femmes, analyzing rejection and otherness within the LGBTQ+ community. Jamal made her modeling debut this past February for Gypsy Sport's Fall/Winter ’18 runway show, and continues to walk for the label. She was recently featured in the campaign for Telfar’s vegan shopping bag line.

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selah marley, ana kras, and fatfemme model telfar's shopping bag

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 Relaunches His Shopping Bag With a Stunning Photo Series of His Close Friends and Collaborators

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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