Trend for Leather Bracelets Focuses on Important Causes

Leather Bracelets

Typically, the fashionistas of Europe and the gala scene from Europe sets jewelry fashion standards. But the trend for leather bracelets is strictly a LA thing that has caught fire around the world. The trend for elegant leather bracelets grew out of masculine leather bands but today is seen on cosmopolitan wrists at every boutique. How did leather become so…. golden?

Leather bracelets really hit the fashion scene running in 2001, when celebrities began wearing all kinds of bracelets for causes like breast cancer and supporting troops in Afghanistan. This trend combined with the already popular men’s style of thick leather cuff bracelets due to the popularity of movies like “Gladiator.” The variety of leather bracelets really took off, and jewelry stores began offering thick bands, braided leather bracelets, and the more up-scale silver and leather bracelets that are popular today with corporate women.

Now leather and silver bracelets are part of everyday culture and Hollywood’s A-List continues to wear them at casual as well as gala events. An interesting celebrity factoid is Jessica Alba’s demand to her best friends to wear leather bracelets until she delivered her baby, showing how leather endures as a material that represents strength and prayer. Another trend setter is Sienna Miller, who popularized “peace sign” leather bracelets that are personalized with individual charms and gemstones. The result of this history of celebrity leather bracelet trends is an association between leather and our most personal concerns and ambitions.