After 35 years of business, North Beach Leather is liquidating its vast inventory of skin-tight pants and snug dresses, leaving it with only its Grant Avenue store in San Francisco.

Specialty items, like a red minidress with grommets, is about $700; a butterscotch coat-dress with a double zip, is $800, matching boot-cut pants are $600, a leather coat is about $800.

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.

He is probably the only rag biz designer whose clientele is diverse enough to encompass Elvis and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sinatra and Heavy D., Dolly Parton and Mike Tyson.