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Over 20 years ago, Telfar Clemens’ career as a designer started as a middle schooler in New York City. “Friends used to have Levi’s or Old Navy jeans or Hanes T-shirts,” he explains. “I would chop their jeans up and wash them in different styles, and chop T-shirts up into different shapes, and I would sell them to my classmates—or they would give me the pair of jeans and $20, and I would do the thing and give it back to them.” At the link in bio, friends, family, collaborators, and more share th