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IDKMYDE: Dapper Dan · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 1: I introduced to you Dapper Dan. Now, if you're not familiar,
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  Speaker 1: Dapper Dan is like the Yoda of fashion, but instead
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  Speaker 1: of using a lightsaber, he had a sewing machine. And
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  Speaker 1: instead of fighting Darth Vader, he was back in the
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  Speaker 1: eighties fighting Guccie and Louis Vatan. And I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. Now very ignorantly,
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  Speaker 1: the very first time I ever heard of Dapper Daan
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  Speaker 1: was on a jay Z song. He said, We're a
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  Speaker 1: g on my chest. I don't need Dapper Dan. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, hold on, now, who is jay Z Shaw? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Is this somebody new to the rock? But no, it
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  Speaker 1: turns out Dapper Dan ben famous. See back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: Dapper Dam was taking designer fabrics and remixing them in
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  Speaker 1: the custom pieces for hustlers, rappers, athletes, anybody with that
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  Speaker 1: money on luxury brands like Gucci, Louis Vautan and Findy.
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  Speaker 1: They wasn't checking for black folks. They didn't design for
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  Speaker 1: the culture. But Dapper Dan, he did custom jackets track suits, hats,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't matter. He turned rappers, hustlers, and athletes into
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  Speaker 1: walking billboards. You wanted the Louis Vautan jacket with Gucci
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  Speaker 1: sleeves and Fendy pockets, what Dapper Dan had you? He
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  Speaker 1: would like the original Doctor Frankenstein of fashion, just putting
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  Speaker 1: pieces together, except his creations was fresh as hell, not scary.
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  Speaker 1: But it's always a plot twist. See the luxury brands
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  Speaker 1: that he was flipping started suing them. Shut that man
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  Speaker 1: down like he would bootlegging DVDs in the nineties out
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  Speaker 1: the trunk of a cutlass. And I'm like, dang, y'all
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  Speaker 1: mad at this black man for making y'all born ass
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  Speaker 1: designs cool. And see, Dapper Dam wasn't just making clothes.
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  Speaker 1: He was making statements. He were pretty much telling the world, Look,
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  Speaker 1: if y'all won't let us in the front door fashion,
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  Speaker 1: we'll build our own house of fashion. But in the nineties,
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  Speaker 1: them big brands had his Harlem store shut down. Fast
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  Speaker 1: forward to now and them same hating brands is calling
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  Speaker 1: up Dapper Dawn like, excuse me, do you mind im
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  Speaker 1: working with us? See around twenty seventeen, Gucci face some
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  Speaker 1: backlash for a jacket that they had in a twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen cruise collection. It looked entirely too close to one
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  Speaker 1: of Dapper Dan's designs from the eighties. So instead of
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  Speaker 1: them just going back and back with the controversy, Gucci
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  Speaker 1: collabed with Dapper Dam to celebrate his legacy. This collab
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  Speaker 1: led to him opening up his own luxury studio in Harlem,
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  Speaker 1: where he collaborates with Gucci to create custom one of
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  Speaker 1: the con pieces. Now he can legally blend his signature
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  Speaker 1: style with the brand's iconic designs, designing for clebs and
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  Speaker 1: chilling in front rows like he owned the place, legs crossed,
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  Speaker 1: ankle showing I bet bro walking them Gucci meetings like
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  Speaker 1: I remember me the dude y'all tried to sue. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here, Now where's my coffee and my money? So
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  Speaker 1: the takeaway is this, be like Dapper Daan, don't wait
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  Speaker 1: for nobody to let you in. Kick in the dough,
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  Speaker 1: waving the faux fo, not literally waving the faux fo,
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  Speaker 1: but kick in that dough, set up shop and then
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  Speaker 1: make them call you. And that's the ultimate blow up.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine getting kicked out of a party. Then years later,
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  Speaker 1: they paying you to host the party. That's the Dapper
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  Speaker 1: Daan effect. Baby. And all this time, I'm thinking all
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  Speaker 1: the artists that have referenced Apper Dain, jay z, nas
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  Speaker 1: push a t currency, I'm thinking, dang hip hop made
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  Speaker 1: Dapper Danna legend. But the reality is Dapper Dam made
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  Speaker 1: hip hop look legendary. Them old school rap covers with
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  Speaker 1: dudes wearing matching outfits, looking like expensive superheroes. That was
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  Speaker 1: dapper Dam. Because I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't