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🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Brands hold immense sway over both consumers and the American legal system. Few know this as well as Dapper Dan, who went from street hustler to fashion impresario and has spent time on both sides of American trademark law.
Articles of Interest is a limited-run podcast series about fashion, housed inside the design and architecture podcast 99% Invisible. Launched in 2018 by Avery Trufelman, the show encourages people to rethink the way we look at what we wear and what it says about us.
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0:00.0 | I am so honored to be on the same podcast network as the truth. |
0:06.5 | One of the pioneers of audio fiction ever since long before I started doing podcasting. |
0:12.8 | They are the originals. |
0:15.0 | And each episode of the truth is a brand new story, a new cast of characters, a whole new |
0:20.5 | world to explore. |
0:22.0 | Some episodes are suspenseful, others are funny or shocking or uplifting. |
0:26.8 | It's like a box of chocolates. |
0:28.0 | You really won't know what you're going to get until you hit play, but you're guaranteed |
0:32.4 | incredible performances, brilliant writing, detailed, immersive sound design that pulls |
0:37.8 | you in and doesn't let you go. |
0:40.0 | New episodes are out May 3rd in addition to their massive treasure trove of an archive. |
0:45.6 | It's some of the greatest, strangest, most surprising audio fiction ever made. |
0:49.8 | And there's nothing else quite like it. |
0:52.4 | When your name is Dan, you get a lot of nicknames. |
0:56.5 | Coming up in Harlem, Daniel Day heard his fair share of them. |
1:00.5 | Sometimes I go back to my old neighborhood on the east side where everybody calls me |
1:05.4 | the Annie Boy. |
1:06.9 | But the sober K that would stick, the one most people would come to know was Dapper Dan. |
1:14.6 | Because from a young age, he liked to look good. |
1:17.4 | Clothes was a transformative thing. |
1:19.2 | If you got dressed, you got really dressed up and you went downtown, nobody knew you came |
1:24.2 | from the poorest neighborhood in Harlem. |
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