Jack Osbourne Paid Tribute to His Late Father Ozzy’s Love of Chrome Hearts
On Wednesday, thousands of heavy metal fans gathered around the Black Sabbath Bridge in Ozzy Osbourne’s hometown of Birmingham, England, for a public tribute to the late rocker, who died last week at age 76. Several of Osbourne’s closest family members, including his wife, Sharon, and four of his six children were also in attendance.
During the procession, Ozzy’s youngest son, 39-year-old Jack Osbourne, wore a simple all-black suit with dark sunglasses and a cross-studded tie from Chrome Hearts, the Los Angeles luxury clothing label that his father had frequently worn since the 1990s.
The Prince of Darkness was a close friend of the Chrome Hearts brand, which is known for its rockstar-friendly, “baroque-biker” designs and its correspondingly starry roster of high-profile collectors such as Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Cher, and the late Karl Lagerfeld. Through the late 1990s and well into the 2000s, the Black Sabbath frontman could often be seen wearing a hefty gold Chrome Hearts belt buckle, as well as the brand’s other gothy, cross-festooned designs. Last fall, the brand created a custom leather trench coat for Ozzy’s 2024 induction as a solo artist into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. (He’d been previously honored alongside his Black Sabbath bandmates in 2006.) Onstage, he wore the floor-skimming trench while seated on a black throne decorated with bats and skulls.
After the rocker died on July 22, the Chrome Hearts Instagram account posted three photos, each comprising a close-up of the trench coat’s custom “Ozzy” label, in tribute. The musician and model Jesse Jo Stark, who is the daughter of Chrome Hearts founders Richard Stark and Laurie Lynn Stark, also shared a photo of Ozzy on her personal profile, writing, “Thank you for inspiring a world.”
Indeed, Ozzy’s fondness for the brand, which felt innately moored by his tendency to always wear all black, became a family affair. In 2003, a teenage Jack Osbourne posed for a photo alongside his pals, among them musician Cisco Adler and socialite Kimberly Stewart, that would become a cover for the label’s in-house magazine.
In 2019, Jack reshared the photo—a memory, as he put it, from “back when I was a ‘model’”—on his public Facebook page.
“This was over 16 years ago and I’m fairly certain I was on copious amounts of drugs in this photo,” the former reality star wrote in a caption. “Interestingly enough I still consider all these fine folks my friends. Somehow we all survived. #youth.”
During the Birmingham tribute procession on Wednesday, Ozzy and Sharon’s two daughters, Aimee and Kelly Osbourne, also paid homage to their late father’s memorable style. Aimee, 41, wore a bat-shaped pendant, while Kelly, 40, wore round, purple-lensed sunglasses that mirrored Ozzy’s signature frames.
