In October 2021, the knitwear designer Victor Glemaud watched Ousmane Sembène’s 1966 film, Black Girl, and had an epiphany: It would be the inspiration behind his fall 2022 runway show. Sembène’s movie, which follows a young girl who leaves Senegal to become a governess in the South of France, only to end up as a domestic worker, was impossible for him to shake. “It’s a powerful story of women and immigration. I started thinking about my mother and her twin sister,” explains Glemaud, 44, who was born in Haiti and grew up primarily in Queens, New York. The resulting collection, in a palette of clementine, white, black, and brown (right), emphasizes his deft hand with statement knits.
Glemaud has been in fashion since he was 19, when he studied at…
