‘80s fashion icons who could like totally wear that today

The singer’s gender-bending leather pants and bomber jackets fit right in with today’s fashions. Tough-chic looks were on the runways, including bombers or black leather leggings paired with long boyfriend jackets. Bloomingdale’s fashion director Stephanie Solomon told The Times’ Booth Moore that leather leggings are “blowing out” of her stores.

Never one to miss a chance at the limelight, Jones appropriately made an appearance at the fall-winter 2009 New York Fashion Week.

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