Leather, in any form, feels charged, which is also what makes it such a taste-defining outfit ingredient. Some hardcore fashionheads (looking at you, Rick Owens stans) prefer for the textile to be the main dish, making up every element of a look to a high-BPM effect. Or, in an all-leather look, you can channel a dungeon dweller, a biker dude, or a dashing ranch hand—or just look devastatingly cool and tough.

If the head-to-toe leather look isn’t for you, the material can still pack a punch in smaller doses. Say, a pair of sleek black gloves, or a broken-in moto jacket, or an unconventional leather button-up shirt with a thick matching necktie to boot. Not to mention the power of a Law Roach-caliber exotic Birkin or a briefcase. Feeling leather curious? Here’s how the showgoers at Paris Fashion Week had fun with their leatherware.