{"id":31728,"date":"2021-08-09T19:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=31728"},"modified":"2021-08-09T19:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:44:43","slug":"telfar-liberia-olympics-collection","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/telfar-liberia-olympics-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Telfar Unveils Its Genderless Liberia Collection to the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31730\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31730\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/08\/telfar-liberia-collection-olympics-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"461\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telfar&#8217;s Liberia Collection. Photo courtresy Jason Nocito<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/liberia-olympics-telfar\/\">Olympic Opening Ceremony<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/telfar-clemens-designs-liberia-olympic-uniforms\/\">Team Liberia<\/a> left us all floored at their sartorial statement. Outfitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-real-housewives-of-potomac-telfar\/\">Telfar Clemens<\/a>, fashion&#8217;s de facto leader against luxury&#8217;s insularity, the country&#8217;s delegation dazzled at the international games in a seventy piece collection \u2014 consisting of one-shouldered compression tanks, sweatpants, windbreaker bottoms and even racing spikes. As the Olympic torch has been extinguished, the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/telfar-azealia-shopping-bag\/\">mononymous brand<\/a> has launched an expansive line of genderless apparel dedicated to Liberia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSUKgJzLBDd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSUKgJzLBDd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\" display: flex; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSUKgJzLBDd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by @telfarglobal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Marked by the country&#8217;s red, white and blue flag palette (and complemented with shades of sand and navy),<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.telfar.net\/collections\/team-liberia?page=2\" target=\"_blank\"> the offering<\/a> features cropped hoodies, gown-length jerseys, sarong pants and wrapped garments. Cutouts, drawstrings, and mesh paneling are weaved throughout the capsule as signature flairs. According to the brand, the collection &#8220;tells a story of a return mirrored in Liberia\u2019s rebuilding of its national team, which finds its athletes in its diaspora; scattered across America by the afterlife of colonialism, war and Ebola.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be an evergreen collection,\u201d the 36-year-old previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/21\/style\/telfar-liberia-olympics.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. He continued, \u201cThese are clothes we want to sell for the rest of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a smaller country, Liberia has oft-been thwarted in its ability to clinch a sponsorship \u2014 while other countries dominate the global arena with towering financial backing. The mastermind behind the coveted <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/beyonce-telfar-bag\/\">&#8220;Bushwick Birkin&#8221;<\/a> not only designed the country&#8217;s competition fits but also granted the team with a massive sponsorship which included food and travel.<\/p>\n<p>With Telfar, a newly-minted fashion behemoth, stamping itself behind the country as the first sponsorship to arrive since 2000, Liberia was ushered into an unprecedented spotlight during the equally unprecedented games. Clemens, at the age of five, emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990 during the country\u2019s first civil war, so the garments are doubly a love letter of resilience to his roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29094,"featured_media":31730,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[17,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Telfar Unveils Genderless Liberia Collection to Public - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As the Olympic torch has been extinguished, Telfar has launched an expansive line of genderless apparel dedicated to Liberia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/telfar-liberia-olympics-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Telfar Unveils Its Genderless Liberia Collection to the Public\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the Olympic torch has been extinguished, Telfar has launched an expansive line of genderless apparel dedicated to Liberia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/telfar-liberia-olympics-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Grazia USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/08\/telfar-liberia-collection-olympics-1.jpg?fit=640%2C461\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"461\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/telfar-liberia-olympics-collection\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/telfar-liberia-olympics-collection\/\",\"name\":\"Telfar Unveils Genderless Liberia Collection to Public - 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