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THE BLACK LEATHER JACKET
Mick Farren Forthcoming Ever
since Marlon Brando slouched across the screen wearing a black leather
jacket in The Wild One, the
mixture of animal magnetism and sexual aberration which the leather
jacket manages to convey has ensured it a best-selling place in the
catalogue of cool. Using more than a hundred evocative photographs The Black Leather Jacket traces the popularity of this emblem of
macho meanness through the Hell’s Angels of the forties; the
original punks and beats of the fifties (James Dean, Brando, Elvis);
the counter-culture of the sixties (the Weatherman, Electric Dylan);
the sexual excesses of the seventies (S&M, Al Pacino, Christopher
Street gays); the punk explosion, begun by the Sex Pistols, the
Ramones and the Clash; the heavy metal and rock groups of the
eighties; to the present day where the black leather jacket is a
potent part of 21st century consciousness and is constantly adopted by
high fashion and street style. 128 pages / 100 b+w photos / 250 x 192mm
ISBN 0 85965 410 9 ISBN 13: 978 0 85965 410 4
Paperback / UK £14.99 / US $19.95 |