The stoy of Jeff Hamilton, the favourite designer of NBA stars The father of the most funky leather jacket of the world

Michael Jordan is said to have been in the Bulls locker room demanding a jacket after winning Game 6 of the 1998 finals against Utah. Leather, by Jeff Hamilton. He came in person and said "she's always been here." Not everyone could have such a private relationship with MJ, yet, this designer took precedence over dozens of journalists and sponsors. Grown as a jeans designer, Jeff Hamilton is author of garments for sportsmen, comedians, singers, and even politicians, from the 1980s until today. He lives and has his atelier in Paris, but his story - which in the field of fashion has become known above all for basketball - is practically a globe. 

He was born in Morocco, studied and worked in France, and during the 1980s began to make the shore with the United States. Because there, thanks to a commercial intuition - and his experience in the denim industry - he manages to enter the world of American sport and, above all, within the greats of the NBA. The legacy of that relationship with Jordan, Magic Johnson and the Dream Team of Barcelona '92 are jackets of more than 3.000 o 4.000 €, proposed by Converse recently with a dedicated collection - Converse x Jeff Hamilton - and that have entered the world of high fashion and the iconography of American basketball.

Jordan was just one of many basketball players who valued him. For example, USA Today Sports reports, the American basketball league commissioned Hamilton to design jackets for the winners of the various All Star Game categories of the 1996/97 season. The designer came from a crucial period in which he had accompanied the Dream Team to Barcelona (and each of the 12 American athletes left him an autographed jersey) and also had designed jackets tailored to Madonna and Michael Jackson (for the Super Bowl). Hamilton's products have been worn not only by sportsmen, but also by great artists both in the past and today. 

Jeff Hamilton's jackets today were worn by ASAP Rocky, Drake, Snoop Dogg, The Weekend, 2 Chainz. In 2001, he recounted meeting a young Lebron James, a high school talent from Fishing Irving, Akron, and swapping his playing jersey for one of his leather jackets. Today, after exactly 20 years, it is difficult to understand which of the two products can have the greatest value.