Before It Became An F1 Fashion Moment, The Elkay Hunt Kilimanjaro Bomber Had Already Found Riccha Sinha

When Lando Norris walked into the Saudi Grand Prix paddock last year wearing the Elkay Hunt Africa Kilimanjaro Bomber, the internet did what it does best. It noticed. Wonder what's so specia about a bomber jacket? Well, this one is a hand-embroidered, limited edition piece of which only 25 exist in the world, which grand prix fans, fashion enthusiasts and reddit sleuths traced back to Elkay Hunt, the sustainable luxury label co-founded by Freddie Hunt, the son of 1976 Formula 1 World Champion James Hunt and racing driver Lee Keshav.

The Kilimanjaro Bomber piece is built on rare natural fabrics and artisan embroidery, priced at £9,000, went viral ever since one of the sport's most recognisable faces wore it. But what nobody clocked at the time, which the photos confirm, is the fact that the exact same piece had already appeared on actress Riccha Sinha. She wore this jacket that has a dark forest green base, with intricate botanical embroidery cascading across the sleeves and back, in the way the jacket seems to ask to be worn.... not as a statement, but as a choice.

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Photographed seated, composed, entirely in her own world, the look read less like fashion and more like taste. And that is the thing about limited edition and rare pieces. They just get noticed themselves. And Riccha Sinha definitely did, thus giving us a window into how fashion forward she is, and that too, with a keen eye for pieces that are as rare as they come. The story here is not who wore it first or not even the comparison, but the simple, striking fact that one of F1's more talked-about fashion moments of the last year also happened to exist, quietly and without fanfare, on Riccha Sinha.

Two people from entirely different worlds, a British Formula 1 racing driver who is also the 2025 F1 World Drivers' Champion and driving for team McLaren, walking into a Formula 1 paddock and an Indian actress all set to make her Hollywood debut, photographed at a café, reaching for the same rare, considered, deeply specific piece. That kind of coincidence doesn't happen by accident. It happens when someone's instinct for fashion is sharp enough to find the right things before the rest of the world catches up.