Red Leather Double-Breasted Jacket with Sheepskin Collar

These two pieces capture power dressing's twin strategies for women claiming authority in the 1980s workplace: the black trousers borrow masculine tailoring wholesale—that crisp, uncompromising cut could have walked straight out of a Savile Row shop—while the red leather jacket weaponizes femininity, turning a traditionally masculine silhouette into something unmistakably seductive with its rich color and plush sheepskin collar.

Lineage: “masculine tailoring codes”

Both pieces weaponize leather for the boardroom battlefield of the 1980s, but they take opposite tactical approaches. The red jacket with its plush sheepskin collar broadcasts power through luxury and warmth—think corporate seduction—while the black croc-embossed coat goes full armor, its severe length and reptilian texture designed to intimidate rather than invite.

These two jackets reveal how power dressing evolved from the 1970s into the 1980s, trading subtlety for swagger. The sage blazer with its cheetah print speaks in whispers—borrowing men's tailoring but softening it with that almost-camouflage pattern that lets a woman blend into boardroom hierarchy. Twenty years later, the red leather double-breasted jacket with its plush sheepskin collar abandons all pretense of fitting in, turning masculine codes into pure theater.