La Femme Nikita Let No Man Put Asunder

Sienna Miller 2017

Dana Delany 1998 and 2003

Stephanie Seymour at Cirque du Soleil 2003

Cindy Crawford

Christie Brinkley

Sarah O'Hare 1997

That lady you hoped to see leaving the office back in the 1990s

Business class 1999

Blake Lively brightly leathered

Blake Lively flaunts her figure in sleek style

Blake lively stepped out this week in a red leather coat with "a thick leather belt wrapped around her slender waist highlighted her fit form, with peeks of a crisp white top popping from underneath her collar."  Poetry in motion.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5391711/Blake-Lively-shows-weight-loss-bright-red-leather-coat.html

Charlee Danielson in Bad Biology 2008

This does not look like a movie I would watch for its own sake based on this review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Biology  However, her outfit is nice.

Selma Kutlug in Unutabilsem 1996

Tia Carrere rocking leather coats

Julie McCullough 1992

Cindy Crawford 1996

The black leather trench still evokes The Matrix

The Frame trench is the only long black leather coat by a big label that I have really seen advertised this fall/winter season.  Incidentally it is SOLD OUT at this store http://www.fwrd.com/product-denim-leather-trench-coat/FRAM-WO14/?d=Womens&itrownum=30&itcurrpage=2&itview=01&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=cj&source=cj&utm_campaign=glob_p_1909792# so it must have enjoyed some popularity among fashionable women who could afford to spend over $1600 on a coat.  This is a good sign for leather fashion.

However, even after a decade, fashion critics still equate the long leather coat with The Matrix.  Kendall Jenner earns the jab in her Frame trench here http://www.capitalfm.com/features/week-photos/27-february-2017/kendall-jenner/ and again http://blog.colourfulrebel.com/en/thanks-to-kendall-jenner-and-bella-hadid-the-matrix-look-is-making-a-comeback/  I understand that the critcs are referring to the sunglasses as well, but it is undeniably the black leather coat that makes the look so perilous for women still.