Dapper Dan Says Logomania Is Here to Stay

"Can we escape it ever? I don't think so," he says. "Logomania says, 'I have arrived, this is it. Don't you see my Gs, don't you see my Fs, don't you see my logo?' That's what it says. And as the culture expands and people move up the social ladder, they want everybody to know, 'I'm up here now.'"

He adds, "It's a status symbol. It feeds the ego in a way that nothing else can in fashion . . . You can have the most elegant outfit in the world on, but nobody can tell exactly where it came from and how much it is."