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Brunello Cucinelli biker jacket

t was the Fourth of July weekend of 1947 in a small city in central California, and things had got a bit out of hand. “The diminishing roar and crackle of the last of an estimated 2,000 departing motorcycles today ended the ‘worst 40 hours in Hollister’s history’,” the reported of the infamous Hollister riots. A number of gangs had descended on the city, drinking beer, racing through stop lights, wearing leather double-rider jackets and generally causing carnage. It was perhaps the first time the biker jacket was associated with rebellion, but it wasn’t the last. The riots inspired the 1953 film , in which a brooding 29-year-old Marlon Brando wore a black leather biker astride his 650cc Triumph Thunderbird. So worried was the British Board of Film Classification that the movie was banned in the U.K. until 1967, for fears it would incite violence and unrest among post-war youth. The jacket was, of course, immortalised, to be forever associated with counter-culture. It is no doubt