Born Aug 8, 1944
From his 125th Street boutique, open from 1982 to 1992, Dapper Dan remade luxury-house logos into custom jackets and tracksuits for clients such as LL Cool J, Eric B. & Rakim and Salt-N-Pepa, inventing the look of 1980s hip-hop luxury long before the houses courted that customer. In 2017 Gucci…