Tremaine Emory Is Feeling Emotional About His First-Ever Museum Retrospective

When he asks where my loafers are from, I tell him that I got them at the Coach store I used to work at in Miami ten years ago, and he nods in solidarity. Before he was the creative director of Supreme, much less the founder of a streetwear brand whose cotton wreath motif can be spotted on the likes of Frank Ocean, André 3000, and the many swag gods traipsing around Canal Street on any given day, Emory worked retail at Marc Jacobs. He started as a stockroom associate in New York City, where…