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  Last night, Kelefa Sanneh of The New Yorker joined John Schaefer on WNYC’s Soundcheck to discuss my story and also share some rare facts that he picked up during the interview process.

  (Source: soundcheck.wnyc.org)

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  Check out this week’s edition of The New Yorker. Kelefa Sanneh wrote a great profile on me for their style issue.
  
  Article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/25/130325fa_fact_sanneh?currentPage=all&pink=fWoQU5

  Podcast: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/out-loud-dapper-dan.html

  Gallery: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/dapper-dans-designs.html

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  This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, the Harlem designer whose flashy fur-lined leather coats helped shape hip-hop style. Here, Sanneh and Leo Carey talk with Sasha Weiss about status and influence in men’s fashion, as well as The New Yorker style when it comes to writing about clothes: http://nyr.kr/YBpQWM
  
  
  

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  Two custom-made furs (mink and racoon), and two custom-made Louis Vuitton jackets with mink trimmings, 1988.

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  At my boutique in 1989.

  Two of the jackets on the left were custom-made for Boogie Down Productions and The Jungle Brothers.

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  This was a special creation for Mike Tyson back in 1986. He wore it to a party at Tavern on the Green in Central Park.

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  Today at the Mark McNairy AW ‘13 show.

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