A Quote by Ben Hopkins

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

Ben Hopkins

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Counter Cultural Dressing Dressing Up Having Jackets Leather Leather Jackets Perspective Punk Up

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Ben Hopkins
British - Novelist
Born: 1969

I love leather jackets, and I am obsessed with it. I carry leather jackets fairly well.

Arjun Kapoor

When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

Tariq Ali

While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.

Romain Gavras

I wear boots. I wear jeans and usually just sort of a beat-up T-shirt and a leather jacket. If I bring more leather jackets home, my wife will kill me.

Justin Theroux

I tend to wear leather pants with crew neck sweaters or leather jackets with denim.

Nina Garcia

I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.'

Judy Blume

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Avey Tare

Jo Sykes made these incredible leather jackets: the leather was like butter. I had one, but I lost it at a wedding in Ibiza. It was so sad; I've not been able to replace.

Poppy Delevingne

When I met the Beatles, they were wearing these funny little leather jackets, which inspired me. I had a suit made for myself out of fine, good black leather. It looked different. I was using leather but putting a different fashion angle on how it looked.

Astrid Kirchherr

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.

Marc Almond

I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

Jean Paul Gaultier

What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called “Heal the World”? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.

Kanye West

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

Grant Hart

The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

Michael Ian Black

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

Suzi Quatro

I'm obsessed with leather jackets!

Joanna Garcia

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