Screen and Style

Over the past few seasons, thanks to a preoccupation with retro and vintage styles, popular TV shows and films with distinctive style from a bygone era are frequently celebrated in designers' and high street collections. It started with Mad Men and sixties tailoring, then we got to Boardwalk Empire and the double-breasted suits of the twenties.

This season's style revival? The bomber jacket. Heavily featured in Ryan Gosling's critically acclaimed film, Drive, the style is having its moment again. It's just a shame you'll be hard pushed to find Driver's satin jacket complete with an embroidered scorpion on the back!

The history of the bomber jacket, as so often with popular men's styles, has military routes. Sometimes referred to as a flight jacket, the bomber was originally created for American pilots to keep them warm in the cockpit. It started with the ubiquitous shearling aviator and then progressed to a style like today's bomber jacket. Originally the jacket was sage green with a contrasting vibrant orange lining.

A bomber jacket is an ideal choice or spring - it's lightweight yet warm enough for the clement weather. Plus it'll add a cool confidence to your look, akin to the film's Driver.