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[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

Available now worldwide, a new documentary from @VogueMagazine on The Making of the 2025 Met Gala Issue, featuring Dapper Dan.

🎬 Full documentary: https://t.co/VHBibdoPb3

🧵 #MadeAtDaps ✂️

#SuperfineStyle #MetGala2025

[Shelton Boyd-Griffith @flyrebel]

Ahead of Monday’s Met Gala, for @EBONY I wax poetic about Black designers and their symbiotic relationship with art, and the enduring question of who controls the narrative of “fashion as art.” 📰: https://t.co/rEAfTprvCM

[LEGENDARY LADE! 🇳🇬 @LegendaryLade]

Dapper Dan posted this picture of Jay-Z & Foxy Brown at Jay’s 2003 “Farewell” concert in Gucci monogram jackets he designed!

We’re right back here again with Demna’s Gucci BUT TBH we never really left! Everyone thank Dapper Dan for creating “Logomania!”🔥

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

Basketball legend #WalterBerry tells the story of the infamous 1988 street fight between @MikeTyson and Mitch Green at the original "Dapper Dan's Boutique".

The photos of the fight went unreleased for over 30 years.

More about the fight, and the photos: https://t.co/B8t778XXSV

(h/t: @RosenbergRadio)

[Don, Hahn & Rosenberg @DHRonESPN]

WHAT?! Walter Berry tells us he was at the Mike Tyson-Mitch Green street fight! You have to hear this one

@DonLagreca l @alanhahn l @Rosenbergradio l @ESPNNewYork

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

The “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” exhibition is on display at @MetMuseum through Sunday, October 26th. Go see it in-person before it closes.

https://t.co/rSnQqTmGnh

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

Dapper Dan speaks with @MetMuseum about the concept behind the rare 1987 #MadeAtDaps ensemble on view in "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style", and what dandyism means to him.

#DapperDan #Harlem #Tailoring #FashionHistory

[The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum]

📢 On Friday, October 3 at 6 pm, join us at The Met for a conversation between fashion pioneer Dapper Dan and guest curator Monica L. Miller to mark the final month of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style". The two will discuss the designer’s enduring impact on fashion and culture, his personal reflections on dandyism and style, and the ideas that continue to inspire his work today.

Dapper Dan innovated streetwear in the early 1980s, co-opting luxury branding to design original garments with high-end details—as seen in his rare 1987 ensemble on view in "Superfine Style".

Register: https://t.co/oJfLvfqPYZ
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📷: Tyler Mitchell

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

On Friday, October 3rd at 6pm ET, join Dapper Dan at @MetMuseum for a conversation between him and guest curator Monica L. Miller, marking the final month of the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition. The two will discuss Dap’s enduring impact on fashion and culture, his personal reflections on dandyism and style, and the ideas that continue to inspire his work today.

Tickets are free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended. (Note: Space is limited; first come, first served. Priority will be given to those who register.)

Register here: https://t.co/KoMHTEnXtP

📷: Tyler Mitchell

[L.B. @HailUrHighNess]

Salute Dap!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

Harlem meets Detroit’s own. Arrive like you know where you’re going, in the all-new 2025 Lincoln Navigator® SUV.

#Lincoln_Ambassador | #Navigator

[𝕵𝖆𝖘 @awgecentral]

A$AP Rocky & Dapper Dan tonight at the Highest 2 Lowest After Party 🔥

[Glendino @Glendino]

we need a @DapperDanHarlem movie, y’all already know who should direct it & who the costume designer(s) should be. let’s keep the wave of black excellence in film going

[OG$D @_shawndawg]

this dapper dan memoir is really fire.

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

Full list: https://t.co/64hD1RihGx

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

Wearing custom #MadeAtDaps, Dapper Dan is named to @VogueMagazine’s “70 Best Dressed Men in Met Gala History”.

🧵 #MadeAtDaps ✂️

📸: @MetMuseum
💎: @Cartier

#MetGala2025 #SuperfineStyle

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

For #MetGala2025, Dapper Dan reclaims the Zoot Suit—not merely as a silhouette, but as a manifesto.

Born in the ballrooms of Harlem in the 1930s, the Zoot Suit was adopted by early Jazz musicians and carried the improvisational spirit of the genre around the globe, echoing free expression and panache from its bespoke seams, and reshaping Black and Brown identities in every society that it touched. Here, it returns, reimagined through the lens of Sankofa—a symbol of ancestral knowledge and forward motion, drawn from Adinkra philosophy.

Inscribed with richly embroidered Adinkra glyphs and amplified by the logomania that he pioneered, Dap’s ensemble becomes a living treatise: a dialogue between diasporic elegance, the golden ages of Hip-Hop and Jazz, and the forgotten treasure lying dormant in our traditions. The exaggerated shoulders, draped trousers, and iconography speak in layered tongues: Harlem flair, Ghanaian wisdom, and the undeniable mark of a bonafide Street Legend who never needed permission to redefine luxury.

This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a memory in motion, and the blueprint for a movement. And of course, it’s made only at Dap’s.

🧵 #MadeAtDaps ✂️

🎥: @MetMuseum
💎: @Cartier
#SuperfineStyle

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

Here's what defines a Dandy.

#MetGala2025

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

🧵 #MadeAtDaps ✂️

[Dapper Dan @DapperDanHarlem]

For #MetGala2025, Dapper Dan reclaims the Zoot Suit—not merely as a silhouette, but as a manifesto.

Born in the ballrooms of Harlem in the 1930s, the Zoot Suit was adopted by early Jazz musicians and carried the improvisational spirit of the genre around the globe, echoing free expression and panache from its bespoke seams, and reshaping Black and Brown identities in every society that it touched. Here, it returns, reimagined through the lens of Sankofa—a symbol of ancestral knowledge and forward motion, drawn from Adinkra philosophy.

Inscribed with richly embroidered Adinkra glyphs and amplified by the logomania that he pioneered, Dap’s ensemble becomes a living treatise: a dialogue between diasporic elegance, the golden ages of Hip-Hop and Jazz, and the forgotten treasure lying dormant in our traditions. The exaggerated shoulders, draped trousers, and iconography speak in layered tongues: Harlem flair, Ghanaian wisdom, and the undeniable mark of a bonafide Street Legend who never needed permission to redefine luxury.

This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a memory in motion, and the blueprint for a movement. And of course, it’s made only at Dap’s.

🧵 #MadeAtDaps ✂️

🎥: @MetMuseum
💎: @Cartier
#SuperfineStyle