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Perfecto Timing

September 1988 Charla Carter
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Perfecto Timing
September 1988 Charla Carter

Perfecto Timing

Azip-front black leather jacket made in America by Schott Brothers has taken Paris by storm. Le Perfecto, a fifties symbol of biker rebellion, is the eighties' latest anti-status status symbol. Everybody who's anybody in the City of Light owns one (an original, not a designer update), wearing it with de rigueur nonchalance over jeans or a cocktail dress. Singers Guesch Patti and Vanessa Paradis

seldom perform without theirs; sizzling screen sirens Beatrice Dalle and Mathilda May bum Perfecto leather when out on the town. Truly trendy Parisians never take them off.

CHARLA CARTER