Half-blouson, half-bomber, Gosling’s satin jacket – that he wears throughout Drive – is now the stuff of style legend. Flawless Photograph: Allstar/Filmdistrict/Sportsphoto
With a colour chart straight out of the Quality Street tin, Burberry’s metallic bombers – for men and women – were good enough to eat Photograph: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images Europe
Key to the skinhead uniform, This Is England’s Woody wore a bomber for the film, set in 1983. Braces, DMs and tight, tight jeans completed the look Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
An early adopter in the bomber revival, Givenchy designer Ricardo Tisci gave this street staple a luxe makeover with baroque embroidery and PVC Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Europe
While you doubt Kanye West queued for the Versace H&M collection, he’s not above the high street. He wore the Miami print bomber jacket with pride Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images North America
The three members of Salt-N-Pepa (forget about Spinderella at your peril) put brightly coloured leather bombers on the fashion wishlist of all late- 80s tweens Photograph: Rex Features/Brian Rasic
Stella McCartney’s chic take on the bomber has a simple recipe: make it oversized, team it with pajamas and add Arizona Muse Photograph: Rex Features
