Thriller jacket

The Thriller jacket at the Grammy Museum

The Thriller jacket is the red jacket worn by Michael Jackson in the music video for his 1983 hit "Thriller". Designed by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, the candy-apple-red jacket featured black stripes and raised shoulders forming an inverted triangle. The jacket became the "hottest outerwear fad of the mid-1980s" and was widely emulated.[1] Because counterfeit copies of the jacket could sell at over $500, in 1984 Jackson filed a lawsuit in New York City to prevent unauthorized copies of the jacket and his other merchandise.[2]

On 27 June 2011, the jacket sold for $1.8 million at Julien's Auctions.[3] The buyer, Milton Verret, described the jacket as "the greatest piece of rock and roll memorabilia in history".[4][5] The proceeds from the jacket were donated to the Shambala Animal Kingdom, where Jackson's Bengal tigers were housed when he left Neverland Ranch in 2006.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Mansour2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Campbell, Lisa D. (March 1993). Michael Jackson: the king of pop. Branden Books. p. 101. ISBN 9780828319577. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  3. ^ Perpetua, Matthew (27 June 2011). "'Thriller' Jacket Brings in $1.8 Million". Rolling Stone.
  4. ^ "Michael Jackson's Thriller jacket sells for $1.8m at auction". BBC News. 27 June 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket up for auction". Reuters. 6 June 2011 – via www.reuters.com.
  6. ^ "Michael Jackson's Thriller Jacket Sells For £1.1Million". www.mtv.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2019.