New and Noted: Motorcycle Jackets

If you're looking for a motorcycle jacket with timeless styling, you're spoilt for choice right now. Long-established brands are plundering their archives for classic designs to update. And upstart makers are taking traditional styles—like quilted shooting jackets—and adapting them for motorcycle use. Here's our pick of the best new (or should that be old?) designs. Pagnol M2 California-based Pagnol is riding high on the success of its beautifully constructed, vintage-styled M1 motorcycle jackets. That single piece of clothing has become a favorite with high-profile bike builders such as Walt Siegl and Alex Earle—as well as design luminaries such as Robert...