One of the most hyped up college basketball games of the season between Duke and the University of North Carolina turned into a dud eight seconds in when top prospect Zion Williamson proved too powerful for shoes made for mortals. Even if the game had been a barn-burner, though, the most exciting news out of the matchup might *still* have come from the sidelines, where former president Barack Obama was sitting in a bomber jacket embroidered with the number 44—a reference to himself, the 44th president.

The bomber jacket was made and embroidered by Rag & Bone, the brand confirmed to GQ in an email. You can find a similar one for $595 right here, and your local embroiderer should be able to add numerals to the sleeve. A word of warning: getting a 44 embroidered on the sleeve probably won’t have the same effect on anyone else. “The ‘44’ on the sleeve just felt like a subtle touch,” Marcus Wainwright, the founder and chief brand officer at Rag & Bone, said over the phone Thursday morning. “Not many people could have pulled it off that way. He's got style.”

Although the bomber jacket isn’t exactly the most advanced style move, 57-year-old former presidents should be graded on a curve. The world of presidential fashion doesn’t often waver from black and navy suits—even the tan one worn by Obama caused a ruckus. So seeing 44 in a slim-fitting bomber jacket from a cool New York-based brand feels downright revelatory. (Especially when pitted against the current president, who uses tape to hold his ties together.)

Since exiting the Oval Office, Obama has evolved beyond the staid and stodgy fashion typical of presidents. There have been hits (leather jackets over chambray shirts) and misses (dad jeans; the Allbirds he wore with last night's jacket), but last night Obama figured out that the best way to flex is to wear a jacket that literally no one else on the planet can.

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While most of the world was tuned into the game, or at least obsessing over the jacket on Twitter, its designer was completely oblivious to the fact the former most powerful man in the world was wearing something he made. When the internet lit up over Obama’s jacket, Marcus Wainwright, the founder and chief brand officer at Rag & Bone, was with his kids at a school ice skating event. He woke up this morning to several texts, one from his head of marketing, about the jacket. “Fun to wake up to that,” he said. His initial impression of the look: “He looked pretty fucking cool.”