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In Pillion , coming to theaters in February, guileless, inexperienced Colin (Harry Melling) jumps on the back of enigmatic Ray’s (Alexander Skarsgård) racing bike—veering into the queer BDSM motorcycle-club world, and embarking on a surprisingly sweet coming-of-age journey. Signaling his thrilling new path, Colin borrows his father’s old beat-up brown biker jacket.

“Leather jackets say a lot about you,” says the film’s costume designer Grace Snell . And they’ve become cinematic shorthand for rebellion: Just think of Marlon Brando’s Perfecto jacket in The Wild One , or James Dean’s red bomber in Rebe

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