Jensen Huang sports black leather jackets worth thousands of dollars — ‘It’s the revenge of the nerds’
The Nvidia CEO has had his signature black leather jacket look for at least the past 20 years.
The late Steve Jobs had his black turtlenecks, Mark Zuckerberg wore his black hoodie sweatshirts, and Bill Gates often sported a sweater over a collared shirt. These billionaires kept their styles relatively simple and seemingly budget-friendly. But one tech titan has presented a more stylish—and sometimes flashier—look.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is nearly always seen sporting a black leather jacket. And these aren’t cheap faux garments. Many of the leather jackets in his wardrobe cost several thousand dollars a pop—and he hasn’t shied away from how his fashion choices have surrounded his identity.
“You may know me better as ‘the guy in the leather jacket who repeats things three times,’” Huang wrote when he hosted a Reddit AMA in 2016. It truly is his signature look, and one he proudly wore on the cover of Time in 2021 when he was one of its men of the year.
Fashion experts confirmed to Fortune Huang often wears luxury menswear brand Tom Ford, where some jackets cost more than $10,000 a piece. For example, Huang appeared to be sporting a biker-style black leather jacket by Tom Ford at Nvidia’s GTC 2025 keynote speech.
Fashion experts have had differing views on exactly which Tom Ford jacket he was wearing, but the possible styles range from roughly $5,000 to $7,000. And in last year’s keynote address, Huang was believed to be wearing a lizard-embossed Tom Ford jacket that cost almost $9,000. But that’s just a drop in the bucket for Huang, considering his net worth is $157 billion and Nvidia’s market cap is more than $4.5 trillion.
“It’s not his first rodeo. He wears a lot of Tom Ford. They’re all expensive,” Reginald Ferguson, owner and founder of menswear fashion consultancy New York Fashion Geek, told Fortune. “He’s found his lane and he’s sticking to it. I doubt he has a motorcycle outside. The black jackets go well with his gray hair.”
Why Jensen Huang wears a black leather jacket
Huang also admitted in an interview with HP his fashion choices didn’t come from his own inspiration. “I’m happy that my wife and my daughter dress me,” Huang said, adding he doesn’t like to —unlike some of his millionaire and billionaire peers—because he prefers to live in the moment. A spokesperson for Huang previously told Huang had been wearing black leather jackets “for at least 20 years.”
