
Daniel Day aka Dapper Dan, at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, Jan. 24, 2015.
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CLOSE-UP: Dapper Dan, Harlem to the World
Daniel Day, known as Dapper Dan, opened his boutique in Harlem in 1982. Merging style from the streets with luxury logos, Day shuttered his business in the '90s after being sued by luxury companies. Now, with a reopened atelier and a partnership with Gucci, he's bringing Harlem to the world. In his own words, "I didn't do knock-offs, I did knock-ups!"