Telfar Makes Some Creepy Clothes and 'Gallery Girls' Still Hate on BK

I went downtown to Telfar’s presentation at Jack Chiles Gallery on Bowery. Telfar is a menswear designer, who is the latest addition to Opening Ceremony. He is known for his affiliation with artist Ryan Trecartin. Telfar’s involvement in Trecartin’s videos may be how I have come to feel there is a sort of creepiness to his clothes. This pairing of familiar imagery with scary edits gives depth to the otherwise fairly inconspicuous garments. Like last season, a Trecartin video projection accompanied his simple garments. The clothes hung on a display built by artist Lizzie Fitch. An inflated “dressing room” waved in one corner, while chained sandals crawled from the other.

Telfar’s clothes are basics in disguise. For a man so interested in conceptual art, party music, and the downtown scene, his line is almost scarily simple. But simplicity, functionality, and good fits have shock value these days. His adjustable shorts, logo tanks, and pocket tees are just subtle enough to go unnoticed as avant-garde, but tongue-in-cheek in a more alarming way than any of his OC menswear peers. Even though his clothes give me a creepy vibe, Telfar's designs are neutral-toned, and practical. But that sly smile on one of the models’ faces in the Trecartin video really hit me in my core. It’s perfect, that smile. Like Telfar’s line, it's never over the top, and still somehow unsettling.

After Telfar, I went to the End of Century gallery but only because I watch Gallery Girls and I wanted to get a glimpse of some reality show drama. I didn’t see any—just all the girly long dresses they sell and this big installation in front of a wall of thick white jewelry.

It’s awkward to know how poorly End of Century is (or at least was) doing, and how the one with short hair and the one with the nervous face always get into arguments, and then they drink too much. I keep spotting all the “Brooklyn girls” around, which makes sense, but I’m always expecting them to act like they’re famous now, since they are. Instead, the photographer still takes photos (she took one of me, but told me to hold her drink while she took it?), and the EOC girls still seem sort of desperate. I wonder if the rest of them are still rich and hating on BK and the LES (duh they are).

And here are some fashionable people I saw on the street:

Look at designer Emily Gruca and stylist Akeem Smith.

And here is Ruth Gruca wearing her own design.

And then there was this guy.

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