Tan Your Hide

 Balmain

I love a girl who can rock a black leather jacket. A colleague of mine looks fierce in one with black skinny jeans. I am quite envious because I fear it is a look I can't carry off. But this season there is way more colourful leather and the more femme-y look might be something I could play with. Toughening up midi skirts and pastel floral dresses. Yes please.

If I had a spare 3 grand knocking around I would be all over the blue Balmain beauty. But I don't.

Erdem

So the search is on to find the perfect leather jacket that won't blow the budget. I'm excited.

IRO

Karen Millen

Maje

Maje

Maje

 Rag and Bone

Sophie Hulme

(Images via Net a Porter, Karen Millen, Shopstyle)

Rebel Yell!

I adore a biker jacket darling. Especially with a floatsome frock. I am not so keen on the blue suede, mostly because it reminds me of something that Kylie Minogue would wear. But perhaps I'm being slightly churlish this morning because I woke up at the exact time that I should have been hopping on the train to get to work meaning I had to belt it round the house throwing cosmetics in the vague direction of my face, slinging on clothes and then RUNNING to the station. Run. Ning. And now I am hayfeverish and my eyes are STREAMING and people keep looking at me pitifully, as though I'm weeping, and well they might, because there is a good chance I may well do so in about 10 more minutes. And I have only had two coffees and that's JUST NOT ENOUGH to get me perked up of a morning. Gah! So anyway, what I'm saying is, it's actually not a bad jacket despite the blue and the suede and the Minogueness and I can imagine you carrying it off nicely La Kerr.

Personally, I am thinking of picking up some sunglasses and customising my biker's arms like Billy.

On Your Bike

(Image via Miss Selfridge)

I know that you are probably biting your hands and squealing about how much you hate this, and seeing it here I would probably agree. I saw it all styled up in a magazine and it looked really delightful. But it is empirically wrong, isn't it?

The only people that ever really worked a biker jacket probably didn't wear it in blue suede, did they?

For example:

Marlon Brando

James Dean

Arthur Fonzarelli

Ehhhh!!!