Dapper Dan and Gap are teaming up for a new partnership, featuring a limited-edition 'DAP' hoodie: “I want to destigmatize the impressions people have of people of color with a hoodie on.'
All products featured on Vanity Fair are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.As hip-hop was defining an era in the early 80’s and 90’s, Dapper Dan, who was born Daniel Day,. While he originally envisioned opening a luxury haberdashery, Day was met with the unjust reality that larger fashion houses refused to sell to him, so he turned to repurposing luxury fashion logos.
“When I got the opportunity for this collaboration with Gap, they said they were going to put a 30 foot billboard on 42nd street, the crossroads of the world. I knew this was an opportunity to take our culture even further,” he explains. “I want to destigmatize the impressions people have of people of color with a hoodie on, especially thinking of Trayvon Martin,” he says.
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