Dapper Dan is my man! The Tailor of Harlem! The master of Uniqueness! He needed just a few blocks to change the world of style and Gordon Parks was his inspiration as he watched him hustle his way up along the pavements of Harlem, back in the 60s. In those times, designer labels were everything because no one wanted to look like the next person, some men would even carry a purse just because it had a label on it and that is when Dapper Dan knew that his moment had come to give birth to luxurious street style. He started off by printing luxury brand logos on all kinds of fabrics, including leather, just because he wanted it to last longer than other fabrics. He is one of the greatest to ever do it or do we call him a pioneer, crafting clothes for us using the logos of the fashion houses that overlooked our black race, he was a man of the people!” – Dapper Dan changed the game forever and they thought they could write him off just like that by kicking him out of business? Guess whose back!
“He made streetwear luxurious and more accessible for our people, whilst still crafting better garments than all those uptown fashion houses. You definitely cannot dim the light of the people of the black race. How does one manage to bring Paris down to the borough? It can only be Dapper Dan! He made better clothes than the Fashion Houses he was supposedly imitating and his knock–offs as some would put it or knock-ups as he would put it, were more popular than the products that were made by big fashion houses that never catered for the black community as Daniel Day added that black flair that was missing, and there is no other race that understands fashion better than ours!” – Daniel Day ‘Dapper Dan’ kept us looking like a million bucks, yet the big fashion houses were so intimidated by his work, they had him shutdown, but he never stopped! It took them 20 years to finally give him a seat at the table from their huge mistake on the runway of copying one of his most iconic designs, but in all honesty, no one deserved it more than he did, that seat at the table
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir Book by Dapper Dan
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