Pure golden wisdom. I am a Filipino who reads Kant, Hume, Hegel, Smith, and Marx. But ever since I read Frederick Douglass, David Livingstone, Martin Luther King, and the slave narratives, I began to see the power of black faith. Virtually every area in modern culture - music, arts, sports, even powerful spiritual worship had been copied from black culture, faith, and worship. Even glossolalia that has swept through the modern churches began from the faithful example of a blind black pastor at Azusa St. The culture of black people has truly enriched our shared global modern cultural experience.
The irony...European and American fashion houses are always copying designs that they pass off as their own. Fascinating interview. Thanks for bringing forth the wisdom of Dapper Dan.
These kind of borrowers and thieves alliances inevitably happen precisely because they're all highly desperate people! It is no easy task to build a house of fashion and it is an exponentially more difficult task yet to maintain a fashion house's status! As a lifelong auto enthusiast, this reminds me of how stunningly impressed I was when Mercedes Benz had the astounding intelligence to bring the iconic AMG aftermarket brand in-house and make it an official corporate brand. I have rarely seen this kind of highly flexible intelligence outside of the hyper-practical island hopping campaigns of Hemispheric Command Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Applause to Dapper Dan for continuing to rise through the struggles and challenges. The crack baby message may have been missed by some, but I pray your platform allows you to deliver your message in a way that can make a difference. There has to be a movie about your life (e.g., "Rising By Design," the Dapper Dan story, or something)! Spike Lee, where you at? Ari, thank you for this uplifting coverage. I'm definitely a fan! - Gibbism
wow Ari you rock! I have so much love and respect for people of color, God created the color of our skin for His glory, it's not right that people are bullied for the color of their skin, and also for growing up poor, the poor people have more 'wisdom' than the elite. Humility means everything, and staying humble even when one becomes successful, that is absolutely beautiful. Thx so much Ari, God bless you and Dapper Dan!!!😄❤
He is a true legend and I DEEPLY appreciate the focus on perseverance, humility, confidence, and rebuilding from the ground up. Compare that to days into quarantine guidelines and white Americans in Michigan rage protesting about not being able to have their grey roots dyed at a hair salon. We are not the same. I love my people and love that bit by bit, story by story... Our hearts, minds, and souls are being uplifted for the strength, determination, focus, patience, love, and beauty they bear. Ari, I am always grateful for the dignity and honor you show to your guests. That respect is felt through the screen and it speaks volumes. Thank you Dapper Dan for your sheer determination against all odds and for your demonstrated elegance and poise. Respect King! ✊🏽❤️🖤💚👑
I love this. I'm so glad Ari did a beautiful and respectful story on this icon. Long after Dapper Dan is gone from this earth, we still still see his influence around us, woven into our fashion and political history.
I grew up on Chicago and lived downtown and in the South Loop before it became yuppy. At my doctor's office at UIC near West Side.. there are pictures all over of what Chicago and Maxwell street looked like in the 40s-60s. We need to keep this affluent black culture in the forefront of everyone's minds. We also need to change the system that let's people lose their lives to drugs and incarceration. There needs to be a better way. Our entire civilization depends on it.
That's wtf I'm talking about! If they were "paying homage" he should've been an honored guest n in the front row of the shows, not notified after their blatant thievery, done on a massively higher level, happy this ended so satisfyingly!
Great cover, Ari! I hope Dapper Dan has taught his skills and artistry to a future generation of Dapper Dans who could someday emerge as a formidable rival to these fashion giants. I hope his legacy lives on.
Just amazing, I watched it twice! What an inspirational interview. I plan to send no45 1 English pound sterling for commissary, should he ever go to prison! Would he appreciate one of Dapper Dans Handkerchiefs. ;)
LOL yes you’re right cause I was a 20 year old but in my teens when you’re jeans got old we either turn them into cutoffs or where ripped holes were we just added lol some more rips in the jeans because what we change into after school cause our nice clothes were meant for school only my made sure we appreciated value of how hard our parents worked to clothed us to look nice going to school no throwing your clothes on the floor or drapping across a chair but hanging up so they lasted much longer I figured out later it’s because my parents experience the Great Depression In the 40s God Bless their souls I got it got got lol 😂
Wow Ari, you tell the stories nobody else does. You teach, inspire, and bring to the forefront what no one else is talking about. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Congratulations to Dapper Dan. Honors late but much deserved.
Us ngga 😂🤣🤣 Who else! White people aren’t going to make you hate them or else they would be on the news all day🤦🏽♀️ I am a conservative and I prefer Trump over the current… But all white peoples are raised to be racist, some just fight to hide it and hide it better than others
Ari is a cool laid-back dude he knows hip hop to don't get it twisted I heard him saying some lyrics from one of biggie song's. This guy deserve respect for dapper Dan appearing on his show
the original purpose of these designers were for original works ... now these corporate carbon copies wait for the street to speak, creation out of necessity and then steal it and call it their own. So, Its fire to see Gucci rebuild the link to that creativity!
[ 1:26 ] In the 80s, when the man who would later go on and become the 45th U.S. President, was still somewhat articulate. His former tone sounded similar to late-90s Putin under Yeltsin. President Trump had a style and speech patterns that could be described as an "assertive-Ivanka-like tone." I'm not sure why he abandoned it. I don't want to address my political differences with President Trump, but now he's almost unrecognizable and incoherent when he rants at his rallies or does a TV interview. It's my opinion, but as long as he doesn't discuss the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines + booster shots, his base won't abandon him. He tries too hard to NOT sound like the college-education elitist New York Democrat from the 80s.
Thanks Ari, For this INSPIRING, brilliant video! I hope other types of billionaire corporations + ordinary folks, copy this triumphant survivor story... .... As opposed to opting for *exploiting or bankrupting others/ *instead of* choosing to pay talented F/T workers with potential* starvation wages, in sweatshop condition... Hopefully more MEGA-billionaires & big corporations might partner up with talented ordinary folk & workers in a win/ win for mutual prosperity.
Turn the page hun . Have you ever wondered why we all know the statistics about black on black but we don't know those same numbers? We all know that it happens.
@@vickieblackburn9976 oh my stars every white person on this app will give you statistics on “Blacks” that will blow your mind - and they will be willfully ignorant to their own statistics 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ So even in the comments section their racism is spewed…
Dapper Dan ruler of Harlem back in the 80s early 70s then we had AJ Lester's he had the crazy custom made hats sheepskin gloves sheepskin coats the Quarterfield coats with the fox fur around the collar the original beaver skin hat custom made coats leather bomber stuff with extra goose down feathers they were the ruler of Harlem when it come to the designer fashion clothing
Ary Thank you for the opportunity to see your daily program on TH-cam I love you and your show so much I arrived here by way of Haiti in 1978 I was a college student then at LaGuardia community college Now I reside in Newark NJ No one paint the life in those communities better than you If I close my eyes for a moment you can easily pass for a black reporter Thank you for the wonderful show you bring to us everyday Thank you my brother from another mother you’re uniquely special.
The Reporter at the top of this video @ :30 - Michele Gillen was an Emmy award winning investigative reporter who recently passed away - June 2021. RIP.
I can respect people who fight their way up from beneath a weight of oppression, racism, and stigmatisation through determination, hard work, and guts. However, this aspirational worship of money, glitz, and the icons of the wasteful wealthy and idle rich is shallow and facile and it encapsulates so much that is wrong with the modern USA... and sadly with much of the black community over there. I'm sure there is a rich, vibrant, and authentic culture in places like Harlem, so why do they need to fawn over the symbols of the fashion aristos who produce nothing of real worth or value? The idolisation of fashion labels is one of the saddest and most depressing aspects of modern culture in the USA, and here in Europe too, and it's especially depressing when you see this influencing working class kids (black or white) into thinking that the label on their clothes or shoes or sunglasses etc. actually says something about their worth as people.
I agree with your comment about fashion . Only thing you missed out is that society has conditioned people that success and being valued must reflect on your clothing. I have stopped buying luxury brands at age 22 and started saving for a house . since us millennials have a crippling college debts. But you would be surprised how I was treated compared to when I wore expensive sh*t even though I wear nice clothes. I have friends who still live at home and can’t put deposit for a rent coz they spend everything on cars , clothes, bags etc. Within six years I’m almost done with paying off my debt and my fiancé and I are looking a house to purchase. I believe it’s even worse now then before with the fashion , luxury brands obsession.
@@relaxationstation7374 with the rising price of everything because of FJD who can save anything! I have yet to see a dump trump sticker but I sure so a awful lot of FFFFFFFJJJJJJJBBBBBBBB stickers every where !
As a white European, I always wondered why black Americans were so into Gucci. If this is all correct he seems to have had an incredible impact on African-American fashion. Gucci then seems to have used a white designer who literally did black face golliwog designs and put them on clothing probably thinking that would appeal to African-Americans. Instead, it got them a boycott and this is clearly a face-saving attempt. The Gucci golliwog blackface clothing they produced is so wrong it is hilarious. It honestly looks like an Onion joke as you cannot believe someone was so out of touch that they thought using golliwogs and blackface in designs would get them credibility rather than disgust. I'm glad Gucci did the right thing...when all other options were exhausted.
And I would like to thank Antifa for tearing down statues of Abe Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson during the pandemic. I feel so proud to be an American in 2022😞
You confuse public health policy with fascism. A true example of fascism would be refusing to commit to the peaceful transfer of power and using the weight of the presidency in a lame attempt to overthrow an American election.
Wow!!!! He said it all! Black culture is not struggle culture. It is not violent culture. It has had to survive via maladaptive ways because of outside oppression which caused it to put pressure on itself. We, as a people, have to remember who we were before the pressure was placed on us and caused us to create maladaptive responses.
Ari and Dapper Dan, unstoppable champions of the people. I love black, latino, and native american culture. Critical race theory is absolutely essential for an educated society that values and cherishes and respects all cultures. This is our shared humanity to understand and celebrate.
A custom Made Dapper Dan suit was better than the cheap stuff Gucci was producing in the 80s....These European fashion houses have been stealing from Black people for decades
Wow I can’t believe Mr. Dan is in his 70’s 💁🏽♀️ I am happy for him! Happy he’s from a time before these drugs ripped our households apart, from the foundation! We were happy in our segregation, we weren’t rich but we we happy thriving people in whatever Borough we were in! Our problems were being force into neighborhoods to attend their schools - Then this crack shxt hit - and a lot of us went into foster care and residential treatment centers because our parents died when we were 4 and 5 and so forth! Tell your story Mr. Dapper Dan, these white people that never been in or a part of our segregation “hate us” and don’t even know us! We are the peoples couture 💁🏽♀️🙌🏽🖤💜💙
Gifting "Daniel Day, known as Dapper Dan, is an American fashion designer and haberdasher from Harlem, New York" ... his flowers while he can smell them. 😍❤💕
If they were smart he never would have been shut down. They would have let him lease the brand. Dan was keeping it real. Real gangstas don't want people to live their lifestyle. And a lot of us were concerned about crack babies, but we make it seem now like we weren't asking for things to change.
Wow!!!! I lived and worked in New York City from the mid 1970's to the mid 1990's. I lived in Harlem on 133rd. between St. Nicholas Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Blv. The most fascinating part for me was Harlem was a living and open history of Black culture in America no telling who you would encounter on the streets of Harlem and the stories of their lives, man do I still miss those days.
"Pride over ego" -- appreciated the wisdom from Dan drawn from his fascinating life!
Is this really you Ari? Kind of like a boot leg copy of Ari! LMAO 🤣 😂
Joe Biden just hands out crack pipes instead.
@@mr.m4853 that is a BALD FACE LIE
Nice change from the usual political hacks. 👍
@@mr.m4853 Go Biden 💪🇺🇸❣️
So happy Dapper Dan finally getting the respect he deserves ... Respect to Ari for this one
Pure golden wisdom. I am a Filipino who reads Kant, Hume, Hegel, Smith, and Marx. But ever since I read Frederick Douglass, David Livingstone, Martin Luther King, and the slave narratives, I began to see the power of black faith. Virtually every area in modern culture - music, arts, sports, even powerful spiritual worship had been copied from black culture, faith, and worship. Even glossolalia that has swept through the modern churches began from the faithful example of a blind black pastor at Azusa St. The culture of black people has truly enriched our shared global modern cultural experience.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful thoughts.
Thanks for learning black history
Thanks so much for taking the time to consider the thoughts and life of another culture.
This is such a great American success story!!
That man is a history book with the recipe for success, great story from a well deserving human being...
The irony...European and American fashion houses are always copying designs that they pass off as their own. Fascinating interview. Thanks for bringing forth the wisdom of Dapper Dan.
Sooner or later they all get their fashion from the streets.
Sooner or later they all get their fashion from the streets.
Lol, while he wears a suit
These kind of borrowers and thieves alliances inevitably happen precisely because they're all highly desperate people!
It is no easy task to build a house of fashion and it is an exponentially more difficult task yet to maintain a fashion house's status!
As a lifelong auto enthusiast, this reminds me of how stunningly impressed I was when Mercedes Benz had the astounding intelligence to bring the iconic AMG aftermarket brand in-house and make it an official corporate brand.
I have rarely seen this kind of highly flexible intelligence outside of the hyper-practical island hopping campaigns of Hemispheric Command Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Boom!
Every day is an Education in itself. Thank you Dapper Dan & Ari. Peace&Love
I’m waiting for the biopic. I grew up in the 80s and I remember the hip hop artists wearing all that wonderful gear. Respect to Dapper Dan
Applause to Dapper Dan for continuing to rise through the struggles and challenges. The crack baby message may have been missed by some, but I pray your platform allows you to deliver your message in a way that can make a difference. There has to be a movie about your life (e.g., "Rising By Design," the Dapper Dan story, or something)! Spike Lee, where you at? Ari, thank you for this uplifting coverage. I'm definitely a fan! - Gibbism
We poor are resilient. How can we not? We know what the bottom looks like and appreciate the difference. The key is perseverance!
Resilient, inventive and creative!! That's why we will always survive.
💯
Perfect post!! Straight up _FACTS_
Aman.......
wow Ari you rock! I have so much love and respect for people of color, God created the color of our skin for His glory, it's not right that people are bullied for the color of their skin, and also for growing up poor, the poor people have more 'wisdom' than the elite. Humility means everything, and staying humble even when one becomes successful, that is absolutely beautiful. Thx so much Ari, God bless you and Dapper Dan!!!😄❤
😊😊😊
Amen P&L
I totally love him when he speaks with such passion about a special, great human being, such uplifting stories.
beautifully put Ma'm
"The poor have more wisdom," Look no further than Tucker Carlson and Trump.
Nothing but respect ❤️🇦🇺❤️
Great story. Thanks for sharing it and for having Daper Dan on.
Ari... Reporting a Great piece of Black History!!!! Black History Matters!!!!
That was an amazing interview! Dapper Dan is a living legend
He is a true legend and I DEEPLY appreciate the focus on perseverance, humility, confidence, and rebuilding from the ground up.
Compare that to days into quarantine guidelines and white Americans in Michigan rage protesting about not being able to have their grey roots dyed at a hair salon. We are not the same.
I love my people and love that bit by bit, story by story... Our hearts, minds, and souls are being uplifted for the strength, determination, focus, patience, love, and beauty they bear.
Ari, I am always grateful for the dignity and honor you show to your guests. That respect is felt through the screen and it speaks volumes. Thank you Dapper Dan for your sheer determination against all odds and for your demonstrated elegance and poise. Respect King! ✊🏽❤️🖤💚👑
Excellent Ari. Thank you!
I love this. I'm so glad Ari did a beautiful and respectful story on this icon. Long after Dapper Dan is gone from this earth, we still still see his influence around us, woven into our fashion and political history.
Arie you go there! Thank you a great blend of street and stars.
Great reporting Ari!
Thanks, Ari. And D.D. Indeed. I, too, hope (and believe) that Harlem will "get it's groove back". A dynamic, creative history in their favour.
Thank you, Dapper Dan! You inspired me today! Sir, I needed this.
Thank you for the Dapper Dan story. It is a gem amongst all of the depressing and divisive videos.
This was great Ari. Thank you!
Get a job
Dapper Dan, you’re the MAN and Ari thx for shedding light on this MAN. Both are greatly appreciated and needed!
I grew up on Chicago and lived downtown and in the South Loop before it became yuppy. At my doctor's office at UIC near West Side.. there are pictures all over of what Chicago and Maxwell street looked like in the 40s-60s. We need to keep this affluent black culture in the forefront of everyone's minds. We also need to change the system that let's people lose their lives to drugs and incarceration. There needs to be a better way. Our entire civilization depends on it.
Loved this so much!
That's wtf I'm talking about! If they were "paying homage" he should've been an honored guest n in the front row of the shows, not notified after their blatant thievery, done on a massively higher level, happy this ended so satisfyingly!
Him and Virgil Abloh. We lost Virgil way too soon but so glad we have Dapper Dan...even after all these years.
Dapper Dan is a Harlem legend.
I might sounds superficial but I was mesmerized by his boutonnière 🌹Dapper Dan has great style.
May God continue to lift up and bless Dapper Dan..Thank you Ari for the story.
Respect to both of these men:)! The guest is a real "OG"!
Good for Dan sticking up for a beautiful fashion he had inside of him no one could take from him.
Great story, great work telling it.
The sharpest man in all of Harlem 🧵🙌🏾
Great cover, Ari! I hope Dapper Dan has taught his skills and artistry to a future generation of Dapper Dans who could someday emerge as a formidable rival to these fashion giants. I hope his legacy lives on.
"WAY TO GO! DAPPER DAN! THANKS! ARI FOR THE GREAT! INTERVIEW! ... GOD! BLESS Y'ALL! .... FAITH , TRUST , BELIEVE!" 🙏♥️😷🇱🇷
Good for Dan he bounced back , big thumbs up! Excellent interview
He is truly impressive.
thank you for shining a light on a tru legend especially having him in studio. OGs like him arent the greatest at zoom lol
Always the most interesting interviews - thx!
Ari, you be on it.
Love watching you everyday.
You're multi informative.
Gotta brush up on your rap though. 😅💖
An incredible man. ❤️
🤔Fo Sho!🤔
Just amazing, I watched it twice! What an inspirational interview.
I plan to send no45 1 English pound sterling for commissary, should he ever go to prison!
Would he appreciate one of Dapper Dans Handkerchiefs. ;)
Most fashion starts on the street. Example: Jeans with holes in them.
LOL yes you’re right cause I was a 20 year old but in my teens when you’re jeans got old we either turn them into cutoffs or where ripped holes were we just added lol some more rips in the jeans because what we change into after school cause our nice clothes were meant for school only my made sure we appreciated value of how hard our parents worked to clothed us to look nice going to school no throwing your clothes on the floor or drapping across a chair but hanging up so they lasted much longer I figured out later it’s because my parents experience the Great Depression In the 40s God Bless their souls I got it got got lol 😂
Malcolm X said that drugs would be The Next Enslavement of the young black male. What a leadership loss.
He also said to be fearful of the white liberal aka democrats.
Wow Ari, you tell the stories nobody else does. You teach, inspire, and bring to the forefront what no one else is talking about. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Congratulations to Dapper Dan. Honors late but much deserved.
Better late than never Pat. P&L
Bravo Mr. DAN!
Excellent interview Ari! Thank you both 👍
Ari I love these stories
Who's Trump talking about hating 🤔 he said I hate these people but they cut the segment.
Us ngga 😂🤣🤣 Who else! White people aren’t going to make you hate them or else they would be on the news all day🤦🏽♀️
I am a conservative and I prefer Trump over the current… But all white peoples are raised to be racist, some just fight to hide it and hide it better than others
Dapper Dan, meet Diaper Don.
Ari is a cool laid-back dude he knows hip hop to don't get it twisted I heard him saying some lyrics from one of biggie song's. This guy deserve respect for dapper Dan appearing on his show
the original purpose of these designers were for original works ... now these corporate carbon copies wait for the street to speak, creation out of necessity and then steal it and call it their own. So, Its fire to see Gucci rebuild the link to that creativity!
[ 1:26 ] In the 80s, when the man who would later go on and become the 45th U.S. President, was still somewhat articulate. His former tone sounded similar to late-90s Putin under Yeltsin. President Trump had a style and speech patterns that could be described as an "assertive-Ivanka-like tone." I'm not sure why he abandoned it.
I don't want to address my political differences with President Trump, but now he's almost unrecognizable and incoherent when he rants at his rallies or does a TV interview.
It's my opinion, but as long as he doesn't discuss the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines + booster shots, his base won't abandon him. He tries too hard to NOT sound like the college-education elitist New York Democrat from the 80s.
Thanks Ari, For this INSPIRING, brilliant video! I hope other types of billionaire corporations + ordinary folks, copy this triumphant survivor story...
.... As opposed to opting for *exploiting or bankrupting others/ *instead of* choosing to pay talented F/T workers with potential* starvation wages, in sweatshop condition...
Hopefully more MEGA-billionaires & big corporations might partner up with talented ordinary folk & workers in a win/ win for mutual prosperity.
The regular assigned trolls are chirping on cue 😂👍🏻😂
If not for trolls, MSDNC would collapse
Turn the page hun . Have you ever wondered why we all know the statistics about black on black but we don't know those same numbers? We all know that it happens.
@@vickieblackburn9976 oh my stars every white person on this app will give you statistics on “Blacks” that will blow your mind - and they will be willfully ignorant to their own statistics 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ So even in the comments section their racism is spewed…
Dapper Dana Harlem hero 💕
Dapper Dan ruler of Harlem back in the 80s early 70s then we had AJ Lester's he had the crazy custom made hats sheepskin gloves sheepskin coats the Quarterfield coats with the fox fur around the collar the original beaver skin hat custom made coats leather bomber stuff with extra goose down feathers they were the ruler of Harlem when it come to the designer fashion clothing
Edward Snowden was correct
What an amazing comeback!
Who put those drugs on our streets in the 80’s?
What does Trump have to with Black on black crime🥴
Thanks Ari! Dapper Dan is da bomb!
Ary
Thank you for the opportunity to see your daily program on TH-cam
I love you and your show so much
I arrived here by way of Haiti in 1978 I was a college student then at LaGuardia community college
Now I reside in Newark NJ
No one paint the life in those communities better than you
If I close my eyes for a moment you can easily pass for a black reporter
Thank you for the wonderful show you bring to us everyday
Thank you my brother from another mother you’re uniquely special.
The Reporter at the top of this video @ :30 - Michele Gillen was an Emmy award winning investigative reporter who recently passed away - June 2021. RIP.
Good man with a good attitude.
The only one doing racist rants is MSNBC
Ari conducted a Fascinating Interview!!! Dapper Dan, Kudos
He's not a racist
I can respect people who fight their way up from beneath a weight of oppression, racism, and stigmatisation through determination, hard work, and guts. However, this aspirational worship of money, glitz, and the icons of the wasteful wealthy and idle rich is shallow and facile and it encapsulates so much that is wrong with the modern USA... and sadly with much of the black community over there. I'm sure there is a rich, vibrant, and authentic culture in places like Harlem, so why do they need to fawn over the symbols of the fashion aristos who produce nothing of real worth or value? The idolisation of fashion labels is one of the saddest and most depressing aspects of modern culture in the USA, and here in Europe too, and it's especially depressing when you see this influencing working class kids (black or white) into thinking that the label on their clothes or shoes or sunglasses etc. actually says something about their worth as people.
I agree with your comment about fashion . Only thing you missed out is that society has conditioned people that success and being valued must reflect on your clothing. I have stopped buying luxury brands at age 22 and started saving for a house . since us millennials have a crippling college debts. But you would be surprised how I was treated compared to when I wore expensive sh*t even though I wear nice clothes. I have friends who still live at home and can’t put deposit for a rent coz they spend everything on cars , clothes, bags etc. Within six years I’m almost done with paying off my debt and my fiancé and I are looking a house to purchase. I believe it’s even worse now then before with the fashion , luxury brands obsession.
You are the man don't know where you came from but I'm thankful for you long time watcher will continue to watch a blessing to me 👊
I remember that I'm a child of the eighties
Trump needs to rant about all the crimes his family commits.
So does Joe
TDS
Good thing Crackhead Hunter and Daddy Al Z Heimer are perfect
Save The Country, Dump Drumpf Cultists!
@@relaxationstation7374 with the rising price of everything because of FJD who can save anything!
I have yet to see a dump trump sticker but I sure so a awful lot of FFFFFFFJJJJJJJBBBBBBBB stickers every where !
As a white European, I always wondered why black Americans were so into Gucci. If this is all correct he seems to have had an incredible impact on African-American fashion. Gucci then seems to have used a white designer who literally did black face golliwog designs and put them on clothing probably thinking that would appeal to African-Americans. Instead, it got them a boycott and this is clearly a face-saving attempt.
The Gucci golliwog blackface clothing they produced is so wrong it is hilarious. It honestly looks like an Onion joke as you cannot believe someone was so out of touch that they thought using golliwogs and blackface in designs would get them credibility rather than disgust.
I'm glad Gucci did the right thing...when all other options were exhausted.
I'm a Salvatore Ferragamo man myself but, in reality, Gucci has to eat, keep the lights on, make payroll, and survive, just like everybody else.
European brands have been stealing from Black people for decades, We don't have friends in the DA office like those Billion dollar corporations
Great job Ari.
Would like to say thank you to the Peoples Convoy and their fight against a fascist government.
What are they protesting exactly?
And I would like to thank Antifa for tearing down statues of Abe Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson during the pandemic. I feel so proud to be an American in 2022😞
You confuse public health policy with fascism. A true example of fascism would be refusing to commit to the peaceful transfer of power and using the weight of the presidency in a lame attempt to overthrow an American election.
GTFOH with that bull manure.
@@winstonsmith6607 do you think they represent America?
Wow!!!! He said it all! Black culture is not struggle culture. It is not violent culture. It has had to survive via maladaptive ways because of outside oppression which caused it to put pressure on itself. We, as a people, have to remember who we were before the pressure was placed on us and caused us to create maladaptive responses.
This is why I love your work. Always interesting. Nice.
Nice job Ari !!
You are an awesome man who should be called a hero & looked up to. tRump can never hold a candle to you!
Ari and Dapper Dan, unstoppable champions of the people. I love black, latino, and native american culture. Critical race theory is absolutely essential for an educated society that values and cherishes and respects all cultures. This is our shared humanity to understand and celebrate.
Never let fear get in the way of your goals
A custom Made Dapper Dan suit was better than the cheap stuff Gucci was producing in the 80s....These European fashion houses have been stealing from Black people for decades
Ari I Love you, you're to much.
I watched a documentary on this guy some years ago. Very savvy guy.
To come up out of that struggle.🤔
What an iconic journey and success story to echo.🎯⚡
Wow I can’t believe Mr. Dan is in his 70’s 💁🏽♀️
I am happy for him! Happy he’s from a time before these drugs ripped our households apart, from the foundation! We were happy in our segregation, we weren’t rich but we we happy thriving people in whatever Borough we were in! Our problems were being force into neighborhoods to attend their schools - Then this crack shxt hit - and a lot of us went into foster care and residential treatment centers because our parents died when we were 4 and 5 and so forth!
Tell your story Mr. Dapper Dan, these white people that never been in or a part of our segregation “hate us” and don’t even know us! We are the peoples couture 💁🏽♀️🙌🏽🖤💜💙
What racist rant. Will they show said rant if I watch?
Gifting "Daniel Day, known as Dapper Dan, is an American fashion designer and haberdasher from Harlem, New York" ... his flowers while he can smell them. 😍❤💕
Great piece
Excellent interview.
Facts is facts. Not racism !
Thank you
What an Inspiration!
If they were smart he never would have been shut down. They would have let him lease the brand.
Dan was keeping it real. Real gangstas don't want people to live their lifestyle. And a lot of us were concerned about crack babies, but we make it seem now like we weren't asking for things to change.
1:25
*so he was always like this?*
can't say I'm surprised.
Wow!!!! I lived and worked in New York City from the mid 1970's to the mid 1990's. I lived in Harlem on 133rd. between St. Nicholas Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Blv. The most fascinating part for me was Harlem was a living and open history of Black culture in America no telling who you would encounter on the streets of Harlem and the stories of their lives, man do I still miss those days.
Dapper Dan has the best Gucci clothing imo...salute
Pure class.
I did not know about him. Thank you!!!!