BoF - Can Black Designers Break Through with Key Retailers?

BoF - Can Black Designers Break Through with Key Retailers?

This season, Black designers are finding that buyers at sought-after stores are more eager to stock their brands, though many...

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HARPERS BAZAAR - Solange Knowles: Reflections on Stillness, Joy, and the Year That Changed Everything

HARPERS BAZAAR - Solange Knowles: Reflections on Stillness, Joy, and the Year That Changed Everything

The year 2020 has been both destructive and transformative. A roiling pandemic has isolated and divided us. The killings of...

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NYLON - THE DESIGNER BEHIND PHLEMUNS HAS PLANS TO LAUNCH AN ONLYFANS

NYLON - THE DESIGNER BEHIND PHLEMUNS HAS PLANS TO LAUNCH AN ONLYFANS

The pandemic has certainly influenced how much time is spent online, whether it's discovering new content on TikTok or making...

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Refinery 29 - From Cloud Face Masks To Gender-Fluid Clothing, Phlemuns Is Breaking The Fashion Mold

Refinery 29 - From Cloud Face Masks To Gender-Fluid Clothing, Phlemuns Is Breaking The Fashion Mold

“I exist in the gray areas,” James Flemons, the designer and founder of L.A.-based unisex label Phlemuns, says about being...

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HYPEBEAST - Phlemuns Makes Clothing for Introverted Extroverts

HYPEBEAST - Phlemuns Makes Clothing for Introverted Extroverts

James Flemons is proving Los Angeles fashion can give New York a serious run for its money. Since the near-eponymous...

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INPUT - Black queer designers created the blueprint for streetwear as we know it

INPUT - Black queer designers created the blueprint for streetwear as we know it

Growing up, James Flemons always mixed and matched his style. The Los Angeles native had five older sisters, and would...

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VICE - This Fashion Designer Turned Self-Expression Into a Non-Binary Clothing Line

VICE - This Fashion Designer Turned Self-Expression Into a Non-Binary Clothing Line

James Flemons is an LA-based fashion designer of the brand Phlemuns. After graduating FIDM, James sought to start his own...

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HYPEBAE - PHLEMUNS IS THE NEXT BELLA HADID-APPROVED BRAND YOU NEED TO KNOW

HYPEBAE - PHLEMUNS IS THE NEXT BELLA HADID-APPROVED BRAND YOU NEED TO KNOW

While the supermodel has put labels like Charlotte Knowles and La Ropa on our radar with both her daily and...

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SSENSE - TIMELESS FASHION FOR OUR TIMES: MEET JAMES FLEMONS OF PHLEMUNS

SSENSE - TIMELESS FASHION FOR OUR TIMES: MEET JAMES FLEMONS OF PHLEMUNS

While the world drums on in standard circadian rhythm, James Flemons is unpossessed by time’s constraints. It is time that...

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i-D - introducing phlemuns new 'nonbasics'

i-D - introducing phlemuns new 'nonbasics'

Nonbasics is the new line from James Flemons, taking the conceptual, high fashion aesthetic of his main line, Phlemuns, and...

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PAPER - BRB Buying: The PHLEMUNS PocketBag

PAPER - BRB Buying: The PHLEMUNS PocketBag

You can boil down cargo pants to a simple philosophy: there are never too many pockets. Cargo pants are the...

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The Cut - A Solange-Approved Designer Is Expanding Into Affordability

The Cut - A Solange-Approved Designer Is Expanding Into Affordability

James Flemons’s brand PHLEMUNS is constantly thinking of new ideas for jeans. The basic-beyond-basic pants are constantly reinvented in Flemons’s...

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