Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Motorcycle chic // Fonz meets Anne Klein

You don't have to head for the open road to wear a motorcyclejacket this season.

With its asymmetric zippers and jaunty cropped silhouette, therevved-up biker's mainstay has gone legit, topping everything fromleggings and pleated skirts to chiffon evening gowns.

Time was when black leather conjured up images of 1950s bad boyson Harleys - those fatally attractive enfants terribles who swaggeredpast, with a Marlboro dangling from the lips. There was James Dean.And Brando.

So sinister was the connotation that the Fonz early on wasn'tallowed to wear black leather on "Happy Days." Instead, ABC-TVsentenced him to a light blue windbreaker.

Then came …

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