leather_002_bw.jpg North Beach Leather is liquidating all its stores except the one on Grant Avenue in San Francisco, shown here. The company has been around for 35 years. A passerby looked up as ...

And though it seems that half the celebrities in the pop world have sought the artful biker chic he pioneered for North Beach Leather, that’s […] Skip to content. All Sections.

A black leather jacket with a double zipper (one that opens from both the bottom and the top), is about $600; low-rise boot-cut pants are about $500, a miniskirt is about $300.

After opening North Beach Leather in San Francisco in the late 1960s, designer Michael Hoban earned the business of Jimi Hendrix, Cher, and Mick Jagger; a late-stage, corpulent Elvis Presley asked ...