“An Opportunity to Take Our Culture Even Further”: Dapper Dan Collaborates with Gap

Dapper Dan has always forged his own path. As hip-hop was defining an era in the early 80’s and 90’s, Dapper Dan, who was born Daniel Day, was designing it. While he originally envisioned opening a luxury haberdashery, Day was met with the unjust reality that larger fashion houses refused to sell to him. So he turned to repurposing luxury fashion logos soon dressing some of the biggest names in hip-hop during a time when Black celebrities were not afforded the same access to high fashion houses. In the process, he became a trailblazer in American style. “I said to… Read Full Article