Dapper Dan and Dries van Noten address cultural appropriation debate
The fashion designers have both had the discussion brought to their door in 2017Dapper 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.” Continue reading… Read More
Source:: The Guardian



