1980s Riding Jacket in Grey Wool & Velvet

This cropped jacket is by Hero de Paris, a French ready-to-wear label, made in the 1980s. Its cut draws directly from three distinct eras: the 1880s–1890s riding jacket — visible in the mutton sleeves, military double-breasted buttons, and velvet contrast trim — the 1940s in its structured shoulder padding and cropped peplum silhouette, and the 1980s revival of Victorian volume, which brought dramatic sleeves back into mainstream fashion. A single gar ment referencing a century of tailoring.