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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: 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: 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…”