Real Talk With Dame Dash: On Fashion and Coming for Ralph Lauren's Throne

The Poppington chief talks to us about his plans for New York Fashion Week, how he wants to be the new Ralph Lauren, and his clothing brands.

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If anything, Dame Dash is a man of ideas, and he's not one to keep them to himself. Recently, the storied entrepreneur and former Roc-A-Fella mogul invited us down to his Lower East Side gallery, Poppington, to catch up. We brought a camera and we let Dame be Dame. He didn't disappoint. Dame dished to us on a number of topics, from Kanye West, to Jay Z, to his former business partners, and how age has changed his mindset on, well, everything.

In the fifth installment of our series, Dame talks about his plans for New York Fashion Week, which include introducing four new brands from his repertoire. He also says he's got his eyes set on Ralph Lauren's throne, despite still wearing the latter's clothes: "He got mansions and shit, I got galleries." Dame also got on his idealism soapbox for a second, explaining that he's proud to own tasteful businesses, and he wants them to stay funded through him and "made in America, if possible."

Check out what Dame had to say in the video above, and stay tuned for more segments of Real Talk with Dame Dash.

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