how about that snake pliskin jacket from thedi?
sure a black jacket or black crosszip is iconic and is the "leather jacket" but realistically black crosszip is very limiting to certain style of clothes, sure you can wear it with anything and anywhere but it is not the most optimal look soonish you would feel you need another jacket in brown for example.
however if you have a cross (mc or aviator) like design but with buttons instead of zipper and in unusual color like grey or oxblood or teal or olive or anything special other than generic black or brown, then this color would look good with any clothes and with time the color would react to its base leather and change into warmer mellower tone as the base leather get browner with age and you get a very unique color that you wont miss a black or brown or a new jacket since yours has matured into nice color over the years.
the other advantage of cross buttons, you can move the buttons abit if years later you get bigger, and you can fix individual button easily than a failed zipper, and since you mention raw denim I suppose you also feel the button fly will crease and sit better or flatter as you sit, the same with jacket
sure a black jacket or black crosszip is iconic and is the "leather jacket" but realistically black crosszip is very limiting to certain style of clothes, sure you can wear it with anything and anywhere but it is not the most optimal look soonish you would feel you need another jacket in brown for example.
however if you have a cross (mc or aviator) like design but with buttons instead of zipper and in unusual color like grey or oxblood or teal or olive or anything special other than generic black or brown, then this color would look good with any clothes and with time the color would react to its base leather and change into warmer mellower tone as the base leather get browner with age and you get a very unique color that you wont miss a black or brown or a new jacket since yours has matured into nice color over the years.
the other advantage of cross buttons, you can move the buttons abit if years later you get bigger, and you can fix individual button easily than a failed zipper, and since you mention raw denim I suppose you also feel the button fly will crease and sit better or flatter as you sit, the same with jacket