Fashion designer Dapper Dan describes how luxury fashion houses acknowledged his influence during major streetwear collaborations.
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Dapper Dan: Gucci copied his 1980s Diane Dixon jacket design
“Gucci created this jacket that I created in the eighties for Diane Dixon.”
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Dapper Dan: Sonia Sotomayor represented Fendi during a raid on his store
“Sotomayor. Anybody know who she is? Sotomayor. She's a Supreme Court Justice. At this time, she's working for Fendi, as one of the lawyers for Fendi's. She comes in the store with the team.”
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Dapper Dan: Major luxury brands copied his all-over logo format
“Today you see the reason Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Fendi, Every major brand is using the format that I use. When you go to the store, look around, look at the artists, they have logos all over, and that's what I gave birth to, that idea.”
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Dapper Dan: Luxury brands forced MTV to blur his custom clothing
“They go to Ted Demme and tell Ted Demme, if you show anything that Dapper Dan wears, we're not advertising with you. And that's when you start seeing the blur on what the rappers was wearing.”
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Dapper Dan: Louis Vuitton hired Virgil Abloh reacting to his Gucci partnership
“Soon, as Gucci gives me this partnership, Louis had been number one for years, all of a sudden Louis brings up Virgil. Right? Now, you know that's a reaction, because Gucci put me in, and we got a collection ready, and we're shooting it out. Louis Vuitton reac…”
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Dapper Dan: Creators must enter corporate rooms before building independently
“If we are to move up and move forward, we have to be in them rooms to see how these multinational corporations work before we can start building on our own.”