Tell me what sleeveless down jacket you are wearing and I will tell you who you are

Understated or old-fashioned? Functional or show-off? Left or right? The sleeveless down jacket says a lot about those who wear it. A retrospective.

Every off-season, the controversy swells like a plump goose down. Wearing a sleeveless down jacket to ward off the cold of

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The eternal return If Hollywood cinema of the 1980s had to be embodied in a single silhouette, it would be that of Marty McFly (“Back to the Future”), a high school student of his time, 1985, with his Nike sneakers, his snow jeans, his two-tone Guess denim jacket, his Calvin Klein briefs (Pierre Cardin in the French version)… and his famous sleeveless red down jacket, which will remain a reference in the history of cinematic underdress. The symbol of a misunderstood modernity also when Marty, alias Michael J. Fox, arrives in 1955 thanks to a traveling DeLorean, and he will be mistaken for a lifeguard, because of what his new contemporaries will take for a strange life jacket.

Normal people Isabelle Balkany’s blond quiff has been spotted several times in the aisles of the Uniqlo store in the So Ouest shopping center, on her Levallois home turf. Dressed from head to toe in the comfortable clothing of the Japanese brand, the former First Lady of Levallois-Perret, who is visibly chilly, has made it a uniform: slim jeans + turtleneck + sleeveless down jacket. An anti-bling-bling look, intended – who knows? – not to draw suspicion on the woman who was sentenced in 2023 to three and a half years in prison for laundering tax fraud.