This Leather Jacket Trend Is About to Take Over Every Fashion Girl's Closet

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If you're looking for a surefire way to inject a touch of cool into your fall wardrobe, or just looking to refresh your jacket collection this season, there is one outerwear style that is gaining major traction: distressed brown leather jackets. One quick glimpse at the latest street style from fashion month, and you will spot the cool jacket styled in a variety of chic ways that are guaranteed to have you beelining to your favorite store to snag one of your own.

Just picture yourself layering on a perfectly worn-in brown leather jacket that lends a cool vintage feel to your outfit right before you head out the door. Sound inviting? Keep scrolling to check out 11 outfit ideas that offer a cool take on the emerging trend, and shop each look as well as some of my top distressed brown leather jacket picks of the moment.

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This Copenhagen Fashion Week attendee layered her worn-in brown leather moto jacket over a textured turtleneck sweaterdress, complete with wraparound sunglasses, black knee-high boots, and a textured bag.

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Sabina Socol gave a distressed brown leather jacket her signature French-girl touch by pairing it with sleek black sunglasses and a slinky tie-front dress.

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Irina Shayk is the epitome of cool in this fall-ready layered look that requires a few key pieces to re-create: large hoop earrings, a vintage-looking brown leather jacket, a long trench coat, a pair of black cutoffs, and shiny black ankle boots.

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Anne-Laure Mais was spotted on the streets of Paris in a brown leather jacket, white tee, cuffed straight-leg jeans, and zebra-print slingback heels.

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Lucy Williams is known for her laid-back, cool approach to dressing, and her take on this leather jacket trend is no different. The British It girl wore her oversize jacket with a white T-shirt, a studded Khaite belt, dark-wash jeans, and Mary Jane ballet flats.

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Amalie Nielsen is one of my favorite Danish fashion-girl follows—her brown leather jacket look is just one of the many reasons for that. Just look how great it looks with a black top, butter-yellow skirt, and brown moto boots.

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Paris-based Ellie Delphine is ready for fall in a chic brown sweaterdress and slouchy, flat knee-high boots topped off with an oversize brown leather moto jacket.

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Alessa Winter was photographed during Copenhagen Fashion Week decked out in a head-to-toe Miu Miu outfit including a distressed brown leather jacket, white bra top, pleated skirt, and buckled knee-high moto boots.

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Dua Lipa is another chic woman in this roundup wearing covertable Miu Miu pieces, including her washed-out leather jacket, black minidress, and brown knee-high moto boots.

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Jeanette Madsen is a Danish dream in her distressed leather jacket, black hooded sweatshirt, black leggings, white bag, and statement black knee-high boots.

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Vogue editor Madeline Fass was yet another Copenhagen Fashion Week attendee spotted in a brown leather jacket, which she wore with a printed midi skirt and black flip-flops.

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Jennifer Camp Forbes

Jennifer Camp Forbes is currently an editor at Who What Wear, where she has worked in a variety of capacities for over a decade, including creative director and various editor roles. She’s well-known as a shopping expert that’s sought out for advice and insight on the latest trends, outfit ideas, and fashion picks thanks to her thoughtful shopping roundups, digital moodboards, and extensive knowledge of up-and-coming brands, plus the new arrivals sections of the chicest retailers. Jennifer has had a lifelong interest in fashion which led her to intern at Harper’s Bazaar as an undergraduate. Later, while working towards her masters degree in psychological counseling at Columbia University, she founded two digital fashion publications: Le Fashion and Olsens Anonymous. The popularity of both sites grew and after graduation she decided put her plans to become a therapist aside to pursue a career in fashion. While she has called Los Angeles and New York City home in the past, she currently works remotely from Massachusetts. When she’s not obsessing over and writing about her latest fashion finds, she is delighting in raising two little ones with her highschool sweetheart, perusing TikTok religiously, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, creating abstract photographs, and eating the best Mexican food she can get her hands on.