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Telfar Clemens is an American artist and designer working across fashion, sculpture, and installation. His practice interrogates luxury, access, and collective ownership through unconventional materials and radical distribution models. Known for the Telfar Shopping Bag, a deliberately ungendered object produced in clear vinyl and accessible to all income levels, Clemens treats commercial production as a site of social experimentation. His work extends to large-scale public sculptures and collaborative performances that challenge the exclusivity typically embedded in high-end art and design.