The fashion designers have both had the discussion brought to their door in 2017
Dapper Dan, the Harlem tailor whose bootleg designs once brought a lawsuit from Fendi but are now being underwritten by his new partners at Gucci, was “misunderstood” by a fashion industry that failed to understand the power dynamic of cultural appropriation, he has said.
“The strong determine the course that history will take. The black community which I come from in Harlem, we don’t have the resources to determine that course.”
The strong determine the course that history will take
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