Dapper Dan, the “king of knock-offs,” launched his PUMA sportswear collection with a bang on July 18. The 78-year-old fashion designer appeared at the Puma flagship store in Harlem to debut some of ...

Legendary clothing designer Dapper Dan has firmly cemented his status in the lineage of Black fashion icons over the past several decades, and will be honored for it in historic fashion in November.

No one was slicker than Dapper Dan. The Harlem hustler once won $50,000 playing dice. He devised scams so ahead of their time that police didn’t even know what to charge him with. And then Daniel R.

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"I consider myself one who creates clothes, and fashions clothes, and uses it as a vehicle to fashion young minds," says clothier Dapper Dan. (Jelani Day | Dapper Dan of Harlem) It's summer in Harlem.