GIORGIO BRATO
Leather Dyed After Construction.
Veneto, Since 2001.
THE ORIGIN
Giorgio Braschi grew up in a family of leather workers in Veneto, Italy. He learned the trade before he learned fashion — hands-on tanning and stitching before pattern-making or design.
In 2001, he launched Giorgio Brato to merge that inherited knowledge with his own vision: leather jackets that carry the weight of rock-and-roll inheritance without its theatre.
TINTO IN CAPO
The defining technique: Tinto in Capo — garment dyeing. Each jacket is fully assembled from vegetable-tanned lamb leather, then submerged in dye baths as a complete piece.
Seams, linings, and hardware absorb dye simultaneously. The depth of color that emerges is something pre-dyed leather cannot replicate. Every piece is uniquely imperfect.
The lamb leather is selected for thinness. A Giorgio Brato biker jacket drapes like heavy fabric — nothing armored or stiff about it.
THE PATINA
These jackets age. The vegetable tanning and hand-washing process creates a surface that responds to light, to wear, to the body inside it. The color shifts. The creases develop memory.
Linings are printed with Bologna city maps — a quiet nod to the family's origins.
