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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.”
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.”
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.”
Dapper Dan: Louis Vuitton x Supreme show attendees received note crediting him
“When Supreme made the partnership with Louis Vuitton, when they initiated The line, and everybody attending the show was issued a letter stating, ah, I want y'all to hear this in the back, stating that this whole collection is inspired by Dapper Dapper.”
Dapper Dan: There were only three Black furriers in America
“There was only three black furriers in the country. There was one called the, he was the most popular, the black furrier in New York, and there was two in Chicago”
Dapper Dan: Tommy Hilfiger built his brand seeding jackets in clubs
“Tommy Hilfiger starts going to the hip hop clubs and giving out Tommy Hilfiger jackets. Ah, yeah, right, right, right. You know, giving them out Tommy Hilfiger jackets, right?”
Dapper Dan: Father was born in 1898 to a formerly enslaved father
“My father was born in 1898. That's 33 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. My father's father was born a slave and later free.”
Dapper Dan: Harlem Shifted From Number Games to Drug Culture in 1960s
“The drug epidemic didn't hit to the sixties. So the first part of Harlem, you see, was like numbers, the number game, policy, that used to take place, and everybody used to bet on numbers, and then it was like, They had people who was like had maybe drinking p…”