Dapper dan

Dapper Dan took 80s Harlem hustler style into the mainstream, pimping out everyone from LL Cool J to Mike Tyson with his glamorous garms. He tells Stuart Brumfitt how he redefined high fashion for the streets

Featuring Harlem-inspired hoodies, houndstooth sweatpants, "DAP"-branded accessories and more.

In this week’s issue, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, a designer who co-opted luxury-brand logos out of his Harlem boutique, creating one-of-a-kind outfits for hip-hop artists, rappers, and gangsters in the '80s (sub req): http://nyr.kr/15P9K20 Click through for a slide show of photographs of some of Dapper Dan’s custom outfits, like those in the photo above, worn by drug dealer Alberto (Alpo) Martinez in 1988: http://nyr.kr/ZHROm8

Gucci and Dapper Dan's First Collaboration Is Here - Fashionista

Before Demna Gvasalia and Alessandro Michele, there was Dapper Dan, the founding father of fashion's logomania.

“MCM & Louis Vuitton, 1986”

Dapper Dan took 80s Harlem hustler style into the mainstream, pimping out everyone from LL Cool J to Mike Tyson with his glamorous garms. He tells Stuart Brumfitt how he redefined high fashion for the streets

Dapper Dan, born Daniel Day, in his new Harlem atelier wearing head-to-toe Gucci, the Italian...

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