You Wear What You Eat

Hours after the indie fashion house Telfar presented its Spring/Summer 2016 collection during New York Fashion Week, the brand hosted an afterparty at an unexpected venue: a White Castle in Hell’s Kitchen.

White Castle had been a recurring theme for the brand’s founder, Telfar Clemens, for years, and the iconic slider chain has even catered his fashion shows. “There is a White Castle a block from the apartment where I was born and still live in Queens — that was where my parents would take us if we had been good,” Clemens says. “When I was a teenager I DJed to pay for my [early fashion] collections, and that White Castle was the only thing in my neighborhood that was open past 3 a.m.”