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Dapper Dan, Custom Harlem

2021-07-26T14:09:52.732Z


LEGENDARY TAILORS (2/6) - For a decade in the 1980s, his studio was the most popular in the New York neighborhood, prized by the local underworld and hip-hop stars - a legacy today celebrated by the fashion.


Dapper Dan, a tailor?

The name stands out in this series devoted to costume specialists.

And yet, what came out of Dapper Dan's workshop was tailor-made, made in high quality fabrics by craftsmen.

If the atmosphere and aesthetics had nothing to do with the cozy lounges and corded suits of Savile Row, Naples and Paris, it is nonetheless a unique tailor of its kind, whose success is commensurate with the place it occupies in the streetwear pantheon.

In his shop met music stars, famous sportsmen and the biggest dealers in the city.

How did a young black born in Harlem become the darling of the New York street?

Daniel R. Day's trajectory is anything but straight.

There were first a lot of stockings, often related to the heroine he sells alongside his three older brothers and to which all of them have ended up becoming addicted.

He was the first to drop out.

Then a few highs, anyway,

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