Label it Gucci from the Milan women’s apparel show. Call it Moto-Chic from leather designers who stick to dark colors for jackets and pants (like biker icons James Dean and Marlon Brando), but stretch it to bright colored gloves. West Coast Choppers does it with accessories for man and bike; Moschino does it with helmets and hearts.  It’s Boho-Biker Style for next season’s leatherwear: It mixes soft and hard details, and pairs gauzy women’s blouses with tall studded boots.

Boho-Biker Style 1 keeps the Tough Rebel Biker Look, with black, dark brown and grey leather apparel colors; plus the usual metal studded or grommeted boots, belts and bracelets. But for this Fall/Winter season, look for Boho-Biker Style detailing — leather jackets that are cropped to the waist, fitted into body-hugger shape, and ornamented, with more detail zippers but fewer buckles, more asymmetric jacket fronts and grommet design detailing.

Boho-Biker Style 2: Leather pants for men and women are classic black but modern skintight. And they are likely to be tempered this Fall by pairing the tough leather look with romantic blouse-ons, flowing mini-dresses, gauzy cardigans and hippie tops. Gucci’s Gypsy-Rocker Fall Collection 2008 matches flowing short dresses with hardware-studded belts; it ornaments knee-high leather boots with long, swinging fringe.

Boho-Biker Style 3: Moody and dark iconic biker wear – like dark colored fitted jackets, tight straight pants and lace-up tall boots – are lightened up in Fall collections with accessories such as fingerless gloves in candy colors, and peep-toe pump shoes lined with tiny and “delicate” studs. The leather boots may be typically and heavily metal studded; but they are also likely to be soft, supple leather and fold over at the ankle. Another example of the hard/soft mix of Boho-Biker Style in women’s apparel is to cover industrial zippers and buckles with more feminine link belts and jewelry.

Boho-Biker Style even invades hard-core Hog Lovers accessories. Moschino lent its heart trademark to a co-design project with an Italian helmet manufacturer, softening headgear safety fashion for riders of both motor scooters and Ducati Motor Bikes. And a designer from West Coast Choppers has come up with a leather men’s accessory that straps onto the back of the bike to hold grooming supplies and personals. (Not exactly the accessory of choice in olden outlaw biker days, huh?)

Hold the Bike. America’s classic moto-manufacturer, Harley-Davidson, has seen a slip in domestic sales of almost 13 percent in 1Q 2008, and it is going back to basics: Nostalgic cycle designs from post-World War II. Called Dark Custom and Night Rod Special, the new-old bike models feature zero chrome and are painted matte black, in order to appeal to younger Harley riders. (Median hog-rider age had crept up to 46)

Of course, we all know that when it comes to moto-chic leatherwear and biker apparel, owning a bike is way beside the point, anyway. It’s the cool styling this Fall that counts.