There's no one article of clothing that defines cool quite like the leather jacket. Think of James Dean, Francoise Hardy, Joan Jet—their leather jackets epitomized cool. Seeing as there's no better time than fall to rock a leather jacket (and being cool is pretty much always in), we scoured the market for these 43 ridiculously cool leather jackets (and some fake-leather styles if real leather isn't your thing), one if which is bound to become your go-to fall fashion essential.