Dapper Dan 28 is out!

Photography Alvaro Beamud Cortes

For its 28th issue, DAPPER DAN embarks on a journey to The Invisible City—a fictitious metropolis without borders, tied together by shared beliefs, memories and chance. A tribute to the communities, friends and neighbourhoods we encounter within the fertile terrains of the magazine. Continue reading “Dapper Dan 28 is out!”

Dapper Dan 27 is out!

Photography Alvaro Beamud Cortes

There’s something unsettling about obsession.

It’s an energy that powers action from the depths of the deepest blue and drives us to create, interpret or worship without explanation.

When inspiration strikes, obsession drives us on.

This issue of Dapper Dan is an homage to sources of rapture and joy, to the people, places and objects that keep us enthralled.

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Dapper Dan 26 is out!

Photography by Angelina Bergenwall

Is this what “normal” looks like? This issue we’re looking at anger, loss, uncertainty and creative, connective opportunities that come through engaging with the instability of our experience.
Artist Thomas Houseago talks about how Nick Cave inspired him to return to art and how he sees Brad Pitt as his brother. Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun–Stépanian discusses manufacturing the impossible, her work constructing playful experiences that mix science and creativity while challenging the status quo. Canadian artist Terence Koh invites us to explore his new treehouse project in New York and researcher Alfie Bown deconstructs how technology is dictating our desires.

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Dapper Dan 22 is Out!

Dapper Dan’s 22nd issue sees menswear and philosophy unfold during unprecedented times. We form ideas, sentences, objects, garments and images into our magazine.

Our writers uncover the inimitable ideas of GmbH designers Serhat Isik and Benjamin Alexander Huseby, groundbreaking digital designer Jon Emmony and critically acclaimed filmmaker Matt Wolf.

Through the pandemic’s preferred means of online communication, architect Jack Self talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler and Filep Motwary calls artist Berlinde De Bruyckere at home.

In the literary sphere, writer Paul Mendez discusses his debut work, Rainbow Milk, and British-born, Cypriot poet Anthony Anaxagorou calls out oppression and othering.
Each reforms language into art on the page, questioning the structure of words.

Objects—Margiela’s Tabi brogues, Sacai jewels, shoes by Camper and Jil Sander shirts—are at rest, while the bright young things in modelling move, restless before our photographers’ lenses.

Rebecca Solnit wrote, “Inside the word ‘emergency’ is ‘emerge’; from an emergency new things come forth.” The work we’ve crafted, in the pages of Dapper Dan, questions the form of what came before, bringing the new to the fore.

Charlie Porter talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler

Photography by Kasia Wozniak

Charlie Porter cut his teeth as an “arts with an s” reporter, at titles including The Daily Express, The Times and Esquire. In 2000, he became deputy fashion editor for The Guardian and following this, an associate editor for GQ and deputy editor for Fantastic Man. A quiet yet perceptible presence at fashion weeks, Charlie’s readers quickly lent him their ears as he documented the industry as menswear critic for the Financial Times. Until October 2018, that is, when—in a manner that may have seemed abrupt to some—he quit fashion.

Charlie has become known in the fashion industry as one of an elite “club” of critics that provide genuine criticism. He has, in the past, been banned from shows—an accolade awarded to those from whom brands take offence. taking an extensive coffee break during a day’s work writing and researching at the British Library in London, Charlie and I talked in depth about criticism; the ethics involved and the love of feeling something for fashion. Continue reading “Charlie Porter talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler”

Dapper Dan 19 Is Out!

Dapper Dan 19 looks at how we—as artists, writers, thinkers—carve out time and space in a world that bombards us constantly, keeping us ever-notified. In the pages of our magazine, we build new rules. We champion those who move against this mechanism, embracing iconoclasm in an Instagram age. We question Raven Smith’s content and commentary, Samuel Ross’s garments and products, and Andrew Bolton’s curation and exhibitions. We showcase duo FAKA’s radical singularity and the structures in tailor Daniel Haworth’s craft. We shoot Celine SS19 and capture Zegna’s collection, placing garments alongside objects to reveal both the inanimate and the human.

Menswear and philosophy are mined. Ideas are distilled. Dapper Dan 19 explores the intimacies of alienation, a new individualism.

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DAPPER DAN 18 Is Out!

DAPPER DAN 18, autumn/winter 2018

Nick Knight considers the communication of beauty, while Mike Meiré expounds upon ugly. In this magazine, images and print are held up, analysed, lauded in close conversation. Dries Van Noten reflects on revelation. Garments are drawn out, draped, drooled over, before being styled and shot. As we pit banality and intricacy against each other, objects are upended and suspended. Klaus Stockhausen turns tables, Olivier Saillard turns his eye to design and James Massiah turns his back on faith.

Menswear and philosophy merge and melt, each concept drowning the other to become unrecognisable. Here, ideas are distilled. Among pages of print, DAPPER DAN turns 18

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Katerina Jebb talks to Filep Motwary

Katerina Jebb, The Scissors of Balthus, 2012

Katerina Jebb’s way of documenting fashion, the body, garments and objects is a form of immortalizing diverse (or not) aesthetics and contexts as it goes beyond photography, releasing imagery from any notion of perspective. This painstaking digital scanning process re-contextualizes the gaze (our gaze) onto the historic or contemporary artefacts she encounters in such a precise manner that it feels almost like the work of an archivist. It has already been a year since her major retrospective, Deus exMachina at the Réattu Museum in the French city of Arles, which featured 111 works—the biggest monographic exhibition of her work in 20 years. Continue reading “Katerina Jebb talks to Filep Motwary”