Dapper dan

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

Featuring Harlem-inspired hoodies, houndstooth sweatpants, "DAP"-branded accessories and more.

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

Before Demna Gvasalia and Alessandro Michele, there was Dapper Dan, the founding father of fashion's logomania.

“MCM & Louis Vuitton, 1986”

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

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

Gucci and Dapper Dan's First Collaboration Is Here - Fashionista

A year has passed since Virgil Abloh was appointed the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collections and under his initiative, the 122-year-old logo of the French fashion house has undergone some bright reinterpretations. But he is by no means the first to take the the historic monogram and run with it. From the origins of the logo in 1854, to its urban appropriation in 1990s New York, we're looking through the rich history of the LV monogram.