Thanks to TelfarGlobal, Gap is on the brink of a renaissance.
and a DJ set from Crystall Mess. The response online to the announcement that the gender-neutral collection will be available in Gap stores later this year was unsurprisingly ecstatic.
Former Gap CEO Mickey Drexler was responsible for the majority of those ads we all remember and love from the '90s and '00s. Now, nearly 51 years after Gap’s inception, the brand’s head of design, John Caruso, has taken a leap of faith into the future by bringing on a collaboration with a celebrated, hip label like Telfar.
The ad Caruso brought out from his bag was the Khaki Swing campaign. “We all know the ‘Khaki Swing’ ad. That was amazing in itself, just the color and the movement. It sparked the conversation again, another connection point of not only making clothes, but how do you show up, how do you create an environment around it, how do you speak to a presentation?” Caruso said. “Telfar does that really well.
Back to those ads—Clemens said that Telfar’s past campaigns took inspiration directly from The Gap ads of the late 20th century. “We have literally copied those ads! We did a video in 3-D for spring/summer 2016 where we copied all the poses from '90s Gap,” the designer said. , which was introduced in 1988, and prominently featured images of legends like Karl Lagerfeld, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, and Lenny Kravitz.
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