The new Gucci jacket, designed by Gucci’s creative director, Alessandro Michele, remakes the Dapper Dan jacket, but with the interlocking double-G Gucci logo in place of the Louis Vuitton markings. Day in the 1980s made use of the Louis Vuitton logo without the brand’s permission. The fur-lined piece with balloon sleeves created by Mr. Jolie Myers and Christina Cala produced this story for radio, and Petra Mayer adapted it for the Web.The Harlem couturier Daniel Day, better known as Dapper Dan, was all over social media last week after Gucci unveiled a jacket that looked very much like one he designed nearly three decades ago for the Olympic sprinter Diane Dixon. "I wanna tell stories that tell people's lives, like I make clothes that change people's attitudes about how they feel about theyself. And I would always try to find a person of color that worked there, if I couldn't get the information, then afterwards I'd pay them to tell me something - and if that didn't work, I'd go through their garbage."ĭan doesn't like the word "designer" - but he does like the word "creative." "I consider myself one who creates clothes, and fashions clothes, and uses it as a vehicle to fashion young minds. I would shake their hand, look in their eyes and look behind them to see what they're reading, or see what books are on their desk. In addition to that, I would go to the people who made these machines, and people who used these machines, to pretend I was gonna place an order with them, so I could see how they work. That wasn't revealed to me."ĭan says he had to get into clothing factories, "and find a way to get in there and talk to the owners, talk to the workers. I can press a button and get information that I used to have to go into garbage and get. They have no clue how important this is to me. Right now, my children think I'm crazy, 'cause I stay on the Internet. "Over and over again! And you know what? I find it exciting. He calls it "sciencing," and he does it over and over again. When Dan wants to get into something new, like furs or custom tailoring, he studies - he goes around to manufacturers and learns everything he can. And Eric B.& Rakim, those were the first ones that really, yo, gangsters really liked they style." The gangsters want to be like the rappers. "Back then, the rappers wanted to be like the gangsters, they wanted to dress like the gangsters," he says. It's also part of Dan's transition from outfitting neighborhood gangsters to designing for hip-hop artists. That is probably the most important jacket in hip-hop." "The black leather jacket, black leather plongé with gold colored Gucci G's all over, and trimmed in metallic gold piping, with his name on the back, and his Five Percenter sign. The photos on the walls of his atelier tell the story, and one in particular jumped out at me - it's the rapper Rakim, and the legendary Gucci-patterned jacket Dapper Dan made him. That's my goal.ĭapper Dan was the king of hip hop fashion before the labels shut him down in the '90s. I consider myself one who creates clothes, and fashions clothes, and uses it as a vehicle to fashion young minds.
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