Telfar closes out NY Fashion week

• The unofficial honor has gone to Marc Jacobs for almost a decade.
• Clemens, a queer Liberian American, stands for everything the fashion establishment has long ignored. 

The big picture: The show was made to demonstrate that he is becoming his own establishment, says Friedman. 

• “[And] the way these things go, [what he’s built] has only made the establishment love him more, especially as the establishment grapples with its own history of racism and need to make reparations," she added.