To celebrate the opening of the Barneys New York Downtown store, the specialty luxury retailer partnered with White Columns and The LGBT Community Center for The Black Leather Jacket auction. For this event, Barneys New York commissioned celebrated artists and designers to create black leather motorcycle jackets for a charitable auction with Christie’s. A total of 23 one-of-a-kind leather jackets were created by Azzedine AlaÏa, Joseph Altuzarra, Susan Cianciolo, Dan Colen, Tim Coppens, Kim Gordon, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Helmut Lang, Glenn Ligon, Nate Lowman, Isabel Marant, Marilyn Minter, Dries Van Noten, Rob Pruitt, Ugo Rondinone, Sterling Ruby, Borna Sammak, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Alexander Wang, Anicka Yi, and Lisa Yuskavage.