'80s Icon Tiffany Still Has All Her Famed Jackets: 'They're Part of My Son's Inheritance' (Exclusive)

"People would be shocked. It's all cataloged and it's put in storage, but they're heavily preserved," she tells PEOPLE

Tiffany Darwish — better known simply as Tiffany — is making sure that her iconic fashion sense remains a part of her family’s legacy.

At the peak of her fame in the ‘80s, Tiffany, 52, was rarely seen without one of her iconic jackets — all of which she still has to this day. 

“They're part of my son's inheritance,” she jokingly told PEOPLE, referring to her 31-year-old son, Elijah Garcia. “My jumpers, all my stuff, I still have all of that. People would be shocked. It's all cataloged and it's put in storage, but they're heavily preserved.”

One of those jackets was worn in her famous “I Think We’re Alone Now” music video in 1987. Ironically, Tiffany, then 14 years old, never wanted to record the nostalgic song that made her famous, believing it didn’t show off her vocal chops nearly enough. Plus, she’d never heard the song, initially recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967. Tiffany wanted to record the more sentimental “Could’ve Been,” which ended up being her second No. 1 single.

“We really fought to sing that song, and that's my favorite song I've ever recorded, to be honest with you,” she said. “The reason is it just shows that I could sing."

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Beginning on Sept. 25, Tiffany will again show off her vocal range when she joins Paula Abdul and Taylor Dayne for a Straight Up! to Canada tour. 

“It's kind of cool that it's going to be such a great lineup of female artists, and I'm going to be singing some old-school retro,” she says, citing ‘80s hits "I Think We’re Alone Now," "Could’ve Been" and "Feelings of Forever." Tiffany will also perform her dance-centric song "I Like the Rain" from her 2022 album, Shadows.

Still, Tiffany knows her bread and butter is the ‘80s, and she’ll lean into her quintessential vintage looks on the tour.

"I'm doing these designer blazers, going back to some ‘80s wardrobe, and I'm having them all custom-made," she said. "I'm an L.A. girl, so the jackets have your leopard, your stitching, your appliqués, even pins on there, a little bit of all things ‘80s. I think that's really what the ‘80s were. Everything went on the jacket, everything went on the blazer. I really got a kick with designing these blazers, and it really did take me back to that ‘80s vibe where you sat down and you — I did, at least — mapped out your jacket and what you were going to put where and how you were going to bedazzle.

"I'm really excited to represent it in a new fashion-forward way, bringing it to 2024," she continued. "But again, there was something so magical about old school and about the ‘80s. It was a really fun, happy, unique time, and I think that you're going to see that from all of the performers on this tour."

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