Perfecto

American brand of jacket: a legendary black leather blouson style created in Oakland by John D. Perfecto, the son of an Italian emigrant, who was inspired by the jackets worn by US pilots during World War II. It became the symbol of the Hell’s Angels, and, as worn by James Dean in Nicholas Ray’s movie Rebel Without a Cause, the emblem of a whole generation. In 1954 Perfecto sold the design to the Schott brothers, who produced it for Harley Davidson.