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We Asked Vogue, GQ, and a Pro Stylist to Kill Jensen Huang’s Leather Jacket
Jensen Huang’s midlife-crisis makeover hasn’t helped the Nvidia CEO’s image this week. In a matter of days, Huang’s questionable sartorial leanings have shifted wildly from wannabe cool Harley dad to low-down leather Lothario. Fashion moves fast, but even in the style world, this is a breakneck volte-face.
As Emma Childs wonderfully observed in The Cut, “a $9,000 leather moto is not the outerwear of a man faithfully going home to his wife and kids after a long day of architecting the AI revolution.” And since Huang’s tomfoolery has managed to spank more than $1 trillion in less than a month, something has to be done.
This is where WIRED comes to the rescue, aided by Vogue, GQ and a celebrity stylist, no less. We’ve charted the menacing glow-up of tech bros before, but merely observing the worrying trend back in 2025 is clearly no longer enough. It’s time to roll up our Armani sleeves and help.
“Tech bros were total nerds before," says Karen Clarkson, a professional stylist whose clients have included Nike, Google, Apple, Calvin Klein, and Vivienne Westwood. "Fashion didn’t touch their lives at all. They didn’t have style.” Pictures of Huang’s pre-biker fashion-vacuum days certainly bear this out. “Then, like [Jeff] Bezos, they all stepped up. And there’s a rivalry that’s come with that, whether it’s the fashion makeover, the grooming, the skin treatments, or gym regimen. Now we have Mark Zuckerberg in the front row at Prada.”
Jensen Huang’s Banished Biker Look 1! (clockwise from top left): Giorgio Armani long-sleeved cashmere polo, $1,695; Lemaire workwear jacket, $1,050; The Row Nesper pant, $1,250; Giorgio Armani leather slippers, $1,850; Speciale cotton-mix stripe shirt; £295.
As a man clearly in dress distress, where better to start than with Murray Clark, head of editorial at British GQ. Controversially, Clark has a radical notion that Huang should keep clothing matters as they are. “I’d argue that Jensen Huang stays exactly how he is because this is who he is—a coiffed, leather-jacket wearing, mistake-making middle-aged man for all the world to see.”
Before publicly admitting on Sunday to having an affair with a businesswoman who US intelligence says is also a Chinese spy, in 2024, Huang confessed onstage that his wife, Lori, suggested and chose his biker outfits for him because he found most other fabrics “itchy.”
If Jensen keeps his jackets (he apparently owns 30 to 40), Clarkson thinks that Huang might even find himself on the catwalk. “If he wants to go down that route, then for sure Demna [Gucci’s creative director] would have him walking in his next show in Milan,” she says. “But he’s very Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Terminator with his black leathers, which is a bit close to the bone, really, with AI and that humanity is potentially doomed. I don’t know if he’s wise to lean into Arnie too heavily.”
Jensen Huang’s Banished Biker Look 2! (clockwise from top left): The Row Vana jacket, $12,000; Speciale lambswool crew, £435; The Row Victor shirt, $1,290; Lemaire Rail Belt, $320; John Lobb City II New Standard shoes, $1,878; The Row Paulo corduroy pant, $1,590.
Let’s get some sage advice, then, from Chioma Nnadi, head of editorial at British Vogue. “If I were styling Jensen Huang, I’d advise him to cleanse the palate entirely, ditch the rock and roll shrunken leather jackets for something more somber,” Nnadi says. “A collared Oxford shirt and a navy or gray crewneck jumper would do the trick and wouldn’t read as aggressively corporate as a traditional suit. The message needs to be ‘I’m a serious person, and I’m leaving that tragic try-hard boomer dad wardrobe behind along with my despicable behavior.’”