Dapper dan

In this week’s issue, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, a designer who co-opted luxury-brand logos out of his Harlem boutique, creating one-of-a-kind outfits for hip-hop artists, rappers, and gangsters in the '80s (sub req): http://nyr.kr/15P9K20 Click through for a slide show of photographs of some of Dapper Dan’s custom outfits, like those in the photo above, worn by drug dealer Alberto (Alpo) Martinez in 1988: http://nyr.kr/ZHROm8

Flavor Flav, William Drayton Jr., Big Daddy Kane, Antonio M. Hardy, Dapper Dan, Daniel Day, Ralph Lauren, MCM, Modern Creation Munich, Custom

Why Dapper Dan Does 600 Sit-Ups Every Morning - WSJ

And they've got some tips for how you can reimagine your suit.

L.L. Cool J in 1988, in his Dapper Dan MCM suit. Pretty cool. Can we bring 1988 back, just for a week or two?

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Dapper Dan took 80s Harlem hustler style into the mainstream, pimping out everyone from LL Cool J to Mike Tyson with his glamorous garms. He tells Stuart Brumfitt how he redefined high fashion for the streets

Outfits that defined an era.

In this week’s issue of the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, a designer who co-opted luxury-brand logos out of his Harlem boutique, …