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The Liberian-American fashion designer launched his namesake brand in 2005 and the iconic Shopping Bags in 2014. While shoppers still can't get enough of the "it" accessory, which was originally modeled after shopping bags from Bloomingdale's, Telfar can't believe how far he's come. "In my first ten years as a designer, I never got a single review," he told The Cut in 2018. "But we won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2017, and ever since then, Telfar is the poster boy for mission accomplished in inclusion."