September 20, 2021
THE STORY OF BARACUTA’S G9 HARRINGTON JACKET
There are iconic garments that arise from simple, unexpected innovations. Baracuta's G9, known all over the world as the Harrington Jacket, has become a symbol of youth and its subcultures, favoured by icons such as Elvis, James Dean and Damon Albarn, and adopted by British skinheads.
From the American Ivy League college boys of the '50s to JFK’s classiness and Hollywood’s bad boys, through to British Mods, punks and skinheads, the Harrington Jacket was the uniform of elegance, rebellion, style and freedom, while always remaining true to itself. Making the Harrington Jacket an icon was not just the personalities who wore it, but its very nature as a symbolic object of change in men's fashion and a reflection of social and cultural changes.
Without realizing it, John and Isaac Miller had created an icon, midway between tradition and subversion, a blank page that would become the favourite canvas of hundreds of different identities in the following decades: from the nonchalant classiness of the Ivy League to the wild energy of the skinheads, from the legend of James Dean to that of James Bond.
