New York Fashion Week: inclusivity centre stage at raw and diverse Telfar Clemens show

Brand delivers an assault on the senses with Telfar TV interspersed with live experimental jazz and sportswear-influenced clothes

The motto of Black-owned New York fashion brand Telfar is It's not for you - it's for everybody". If this has been hailed as a win for inclusivity, the epic show at New York fashion week was about defining what that meant for designer Telfar Clemens and his collaborators. A press release, handed out to guests, asked how can a Black business with almost entirely Black customers - be the result of someone else's inclusivity?"

The exploration of what inclusivity means to Clemens and collaborators was an assault on the senses.