In this Article GAP. In typical form, the Internet (when it started working again) was rife with opinion — and for some, the jacket looked familiar. It led, of course, to a game of “spot the reference.” Fashion industry figures took to Twitter to liken West’s GAP with Charles James’s famous evening puffer jacket (which is, arguably, the first puffer ever designed), crediting the multihyphenate for doing his research into early puffer coats. The James jacket in question has a long history of influencing designers — Rick Owens has previously named it as one of the pieces that most inspired him.