Peter Marino proves that if you are talented and successful enough, you can wear anything at all.
The architect designs almost every top department store and designer retail space — mansions, too — on multiple continents. He has a wife and daughter and a team of 180 working for him.
And he dresses himself head to toe in custom-tailored black leather, from his Nazi-style caps to his motorcycle boots. And don’t forget the codpiece.
Dubbed “the leather daddy of luxury,” Marino, says writer Richard Turley, is America’s answer to Tom of Finland. Marino, who has a mohawk and a beard and heavy silver rings on each finger, was photographed in full fetish regalia last weekend at a benefit in the Hamptons for the Animal Rescue Fund, posing with a smiling Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” and various socialites.
As Marc Jacobs told New York magazine, “In the world that we all run in, I don’t find anything odd.”