The Dapper Villains Podcast

Welcome to the first episode of Dapper Villains... This Podcast has been a long time coming, it's something we have been talking about and working gon for a while. Be Sure to Follow us on YouTube for more content https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMxgwkToauXY4uyibiftMQ Dapper Villains as a concept actually dates back to 2015 when dana first came up with the idea, but it never got

In this episode dana and Jai talk with menswear stylist and custom clothier from Atlanta Georgia, Jay Gats. Jay has had a solid start to his career in Menswear working for Ralph Lauren and Suit Supply. He has developed a following by critiquing menswear from cinema and not being afraid to speak his mind when it comes to style, even when it flys in the face of the sartorial elite.

Wearing a mask daily is the new normal, dana and Jai discuss how that new normal fits into menswear and the daily sartorial life. With this global pandemic that has been sweeping the globe, everyone is wondering what it is they can do to help protect themselves and protector others, how do we stay safe. dana and Jai discuss some of the features in fabric masks that you want to look

If there is a single word that describes Natty Adams it would be elegance, for him, that would put him square in the world of a capital D Dandy. Buy Nattys books here! We Are Dandy: The Elegant Gentleman around the World - https://amzn.to/3cuoj30 I Am Dandy: The Return of The Elegant Gentleman - https://amzn.to/3fLoyJl Natty embraces menswear style on a level that makes the Dappe

This episode has some of the best stories we have ever heard on the show, from Lenny Kravitz pulling up to Mike's house in a tour buss to buy jewelry, to selling menswear accessories to bikers on Savile Row in London, Mike has done it all. His company Red Rabit Trading Co is making some of the hottest sartorial menswear items based on classic Americana, and sporting a lot turquois

In this very first episode of the Dapper Villains weekend edition we take a break and discuss something off the beaten path, today we dive in on Jai's Spotify playlist (Linked Below) that you can play and enjoy. Jai describes this playlist as being incredibly bipolar, and it surely is. spaning from 90s gangster rap to Bossanova jazz to classics of Naples, Italy this playlist has so

In this episode, we talk with hip hop journalist and former editor in chief of Hip Hop DX Justine Hunte. Justin has been telling the story of life through the lens of hip hop for years, but oddly enough journalism wasn't his first career, Justin began his career in the world of finance and wore a suit to work every single day. Though he left the suit and tie behind when he crossed

Last week we took at look at Jai's bi-polar dapper playlist, this week we dive into dana's more villainous music selections. While Jai had more Jazz infused into his musical selection dana leans more on the side of hip hop to makeup the soundtrack of his life. Join us as dana and Jai dive into the stories that interweave with their lives on this relaxed weekend edition of the Dapp

In the world of menswear, the focus is often on the designer, the tailor, the cutter, but very rarely do we think about it from the view of an artist, today that is what we do when we talk with renowned menswear artist Matt Miller aka Sunflowerman. He grew up in Michigan and from an early age was drawn to art. This attraction led him to art school, but the constraints of art school

In this episode dana and Jai speak with the founder of Vestium Custom Clothing, Ksenia and her husband and collaborator Enrique Bejarano. We take a deep dive into the history and background of Vestium Custom Clothing and Ksenia's long journey to being a designer of menswear and also how that crossed over to her brining that experience and her unique style to women's suits. Her husb