WATCH | Dapper Dan on Embracing the Culture Through Style - video Dailymotion

Dapper Dan at ESSENCE Fashion House.

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00:00What does the way that you choose to dress or dress others have to do with how you fulfill your purpose in the world if

00:06You are not taking notes start now right now

00:10Well when it comes to my dressing I dress for the mission

00:14What I mean by that is like

00:16Depending where I'm going if I have to do a Wall Street thing then I do a Wall Street thing

00:20Mmm, and what I do I embrace the culture so I grew up in Harlem doing

00:26Various musical genres, right so when Calypso was hot I had a Calypso look you know

00:33We're in Harlem. We have Dominicans Puerto Ricans African Americans, and I embrace all

00:38Parts of the culture so when I'm hanging out with my Dominican friends. I see how they dress

00:43I want to impress them so I look with that

00:46I take that kind of look and my Puerto Rican friends like I go to Lamar get them on Saturday

00:51Yeah, a little more count more conservative. Yeah, I dress like that wherever I'm going

00:57I want to make an impression, and I want to make an impression by doing whatever they do

01:02The best that they do it. Yeah, so people know that I'm diverse in how I create yeah, so wherever

01:10wherever I'm at

01:13Harlem is there