Style Archive: a series in which we celebrate the stars of the past that made menswear what it is today. This week: Brad Pitt's leather fixation.
January 4th 1988. Brad Pitt is signing autographs outside a hotel in Beverly Hills wearing a leather biker jacket with an up-turned collar and a faint smile.
Three years before Thelma & Louise would jump-start his career, and with iconic roles in Se7en and Fight Club way ahead of him, Brad Pitt was not yet a byword for handsome Hollywood A-lister.
Still, looking at the snapshot of the past, you can see a star in the making. Red carpet photos of Pitt during the Eighties show a fresh-faced twenty-something from Shawnee, Oklahoma, grinning at the fact he had been granted passage to film premieres.
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