Mr. Michele is an avid student of history, but also a gleeful and heretical mixologist of its disparate elements. He considers, he said, Dapper Dan to be no different than any other artist in history. Photo“I understand that I am putting my hands in a kind of very delicate playground, the black community,” Mr. Michele said. Mr. Day himself is the model in Gucci’s new tailoring ad campaign, shot on the streets of Harlem, where he met Mr. Michele at last. “You have to understand, I was prepared to be copied from the time my store was first opened,” Mr. Day said.

Source: New York Times September 10, 2017 19:18 UTC