Photo: Courtesy of Simone
—Alexis Brunswick
Nicole Richie has yet Twitpic’d hers and Mary-Kate Olsen was blotted dressing hers ashore the way to JFK. The latest iteration of the studded leather jacket, that is—this one from Katie Nehra’s Simone tag. The L.A.-based designer namely picking up left-coast fans, as they say, left and right. But the latest admirer of the Fall ‘10 manner ($1,080), a cropped moto jacket with exaggerated lapels, namely none additional than Patti Smith. After hearing that the singer-turned-Just Kids memoirist was desiring afterward the jacket (spotting it on one of Nehra’s friends in Manhattan), the designer made sure to rush a jacket because Smith into making. “You tin custom-order the jacket anyone direction you want,” Nehra said, pointing to the exaggerated studs and final name emblazoned on the behind of hers. “But for Patti, I’m going to quit always those determinations up to her.”