But they're perhaps best known for a conceptual coinage: "vaguely Asian," the idea that Asianness in the West functions less as a fixed identity than as a constantly shifting composite of social and aesthetic projections. Together, they presented 36 looks—designed by CFGNY and styled by Telfar fashion director Avena Gallagher—that made the “vaguely Asian” material. The outfits we had shown up in were clearly “vaguely Asian” enough to serve as cover for the covert models, after all. Guided by gut, they pull deadstock fabrics that strike them as “vaguely Asian,” often maximalist patterns and shiny polyesters. Even the iPhone itself, they point out, is a "vaguely Asian" object—an import from Chinese factories that Americans use in their everyday lives.