Name: How a $5k Luxury Leather Jacket is Made
Uploaded: 2020-03-08T00:32:21.000Z
Duration: 9 min
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For me they're meant to be thrown around, worn everywhere.

It's something that you should be wearing.

And it should tell that story of your life.

It's like this personal journal of experience.

It was really like flat and wasn't interesting at all.

I put it in my bathtub and I wore it while it dried.

It was different from putting on anything else

I met people in the factories that were actually making

these jackets and I learned a lot from those people.

or a $10,000 leather jacket, it's gonna last forever.

It's gonna change every time they wear it.

The first phase of making one of our leather jackets is

meeting with the client, select the leather that they want,

any embroidery or specific details that they might also

wanna add, and we actually draw out the jacket for them.

After that, we take 32 points of measurement.

taking your measurements is also the person

that's with your piece the whole way through.

I'm making the jacket that you will be wearing.

Physically, myself, I can only make four jackets a month.

The second phase, is to create the paper pattern

then be put together to create the actual 3D jacket.

The armhole and the shoulder, that's the most complicated

place to fit and I've developed a really great pattern

As a designer, that's the first thing you

look at when you look at a jacket or a coat.

Like how beautiful does that sleeve hang.

We make a fabric version which is basically a mock up

There's always some sort of tweaks that have

Once the needle goes through the leather,

There's always gonna be a hole where the needle was.

When I sell a leather, when they pick their skin,

that leather is no longer gonna be available

Oh, I saw my friend Joe and he was in this really cool

and you will have your own one-of-a-kind piece.

The jacket that I'm wearing is this really

We examine each skin for any nicks or holes,

any scratches that we may not want on the jacket.

Some leathers are more distressed already

and they show natural grain from the animal

How are all 50 of these pattern pieces gonna actually

fit into these hides that are all different sizes.

The embroidery, it's a lot of fun and it's something

that we offer most specifically on the linings

of everyone's jackets and give people an opportunity

to have this like very personal interior detail

and it can be anything; their nickname or an illustration.

It's this private detail that no one knows about

because it's on the inside of their jacket.

The fourth step in the process of making a jacket,

you have to do things like stabilize certain areas

like the waistbands, the cuffs, and the collars,

basically cuts the thickness of the leather in half.

It gets rid of the bulk so that when you have seams

to fold over, it doesn't add really any extra

to that which allows the seams to actually lay flatter.

It's really just a matter of like getting all

The fifth phase is where we actually sit down

It's not necessarily, okay we're gonna sit down

at the sewing machine and it's all gonna be done.

You sew one seam and then you have to iron it flat

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