‘You better watch out, you’re going to leave this place with a spring in your step,’ Daniel ‘Dapper Dan’ Day says as a waitress brings out family style size platters of cornbread, grits, mac n cheese, collard greens and fried chicken and waffles.
We’re in Sylvia’s, the famous Harlem landmark and world’s most popular soul food restaurant, which sits in the heart of the neighbourhood’s historical district, right down the street from the brownstone I lived in before moving to London.
The man most famously known as Dapper Dan is hosting a small international group that includes museum owners and curators from South Africa and Berlin, and a very important client from Japan — in other words, people who don’t eat grits. ‘Ah! It’s like polenta!’ a Gucci employee from Milan says excitedly after the first bite
We’re on a special weekend-long experience of sightseeing and storytelling hosted by Day, the iconic designer who this week announced a new limited edition book, Dapper Dan’s Harlem, published by his collaborator, Gucci, and shot by filmmaker and photographer Ari Marcopoulos.
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