Jacket articles

  • Hurricanes @ Blue Jackets: Preview and Game Thread

    So it’s Hurricanes versus the Islanders starting this weekend. Thanks to the sequence of events of the games last night, the New York Rangers secured the Metropolitan Division title, as well as the Presidents’ Trophy for the season. They’ll be the top seed for the playoffs, and they await the winner of the second Wild Card. Also last night, the other New York team—the Islanders—won and secured third place in the Metro meaning they’ll face off against the Hurricanes in Round One. The easy thing...

  • ‘Born cool’ – why the varsity jacket is still leader of the pack

    Originally the preserve of Ivy League sportsmen, the jacket has seen incarnations from the likes of Salt-N-Pepa, Palace and Prada. And now Louis Vuitton’s NFT version is going for £7,000There are few items of clothing as iconic – or as purely American – as the classic varsity jacket. Yet, lately, it has been making a comeback, thanks in part to Italian powerhouse Prada, who featured a chic all-leather take on it at Milan fashion week in February. It has also been a central piece in much-hyped...

  • Pharrell's Phygital $8,500 LV Jacket Isn't For Everyone

    Louis Vuitton's Brown Varsity Jacket was one of the many Western-inspired products to walk the runway in the fashion house’s cowboy-themed Fall/Winter 2024 men