"I HAVE ALWAYS FELT super-black, like black as fuck, but I feel extra black as fuckwhen I wear this bag", says Raven Baker, age 24, a video producer and social-media editor living in Brooklyn. Clemens launched the bag during Telfar's autumn-winter 2014 collection, but it wasn't until 2017 that it started to gain momentum. That year, Clemens won the top prize of $400,000 at the CFDA-Vogue Fashion Fund Awards-a sign of mainstream recognition for the young Liberian-American and Queens native, who'd been making clothes for over a decade by that point. [Extracted from the article]