Well, if we're being honest, he wasn't trying to be a trendsetter with the leather back in the day. He was trying to be himself at the time.

Let's also not pretend that his time in Judas Priest isn't peppered with them adapting to current musical trends & fashion. I don't see him dropping the JP image in 1991 any different than he and the guys moussing their hair and adding more colors and synths on 'Turbo'. He was just doing what he always did.