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We Asked Vogue, GQ, and a Pro Stylist to Kill Jensen Huang’s Leather Jacket

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The signature moto jacket has officially worn out its welcome. Here’s how fashion’s pros would rebrand him.

Photo-Illustration: Siqi Li; Getty Images; Courtesy of Giorgio Armani; Speciale; The Row; Lemaire

Jensen Huang’s midlife-crisis makeover hasn’t helped the Nvidia CEO’s image this week. In a matter of days, Huang’s questionable sartorial leanings have shifted wildly from wannabe cool Harley dad to low-down leather Lothario . Fashion moves fast, but even in the style world, this is a breakneck volte-face .

As Emma Childs wonderfully observed in The Cut, “a $9,000 leather moto is not the outerwear of a man faithfully going home to his wife and kids after a long day of architecting the AI revolution.” And since Huang’s tomfoolery has managed to spank more than $1 trillion in less than a month, something has to be done.

This is where WIRED comes to the rescue, aided by Vogue, GQ and a celebrity stylist, no less.…

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