It’s been a while since I’ve done an iconic leather jacket post, so after spending a weekend down a Nirvana rabbit hole it could only be Kurt Cobain. I found this gorgeous image of Kurt wearing an oversized leather jacket, a staple of grunge fashion, always worn loose and baggy. At the time I wore an oversized mustard corduroy number found in a box in my parents shed and an old tattered leather jacket inherited from my late Greek Papou. Grunge was a celebration of androgynous thrift store finds, everyone shopped in charity stores, and Kurt was a massive fashion ‘influencer’ of the grunge subculture.
I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t immediately on the Nirvana bandwagon as I am always a little cautious of mass hysteria. But I fell hard for Chris Cornell and his band Soundgarden, so I guess I snuck through the back door to the Nirvana party via their third album ‘In Utero’. My brother had ‘burnt a disc’ for me to take travelling and I obsessively played it on my portable CD player.
Coincidentally he called me this morning and we discussed the upcoming Nirvana tour…and his parting remarks were ‘now the kids who bought a Nirvana tshirt at Target will know the logo is a band!’…shame on you fast fashion capitalists…
Photo credit - Michel Linnsen / Hilversum Studios, Netherlands. 1991