This month the new Bond movie, Spectre, is released. Sean Connery remains the man who defined the role. No is a classic and still entertaining to watch, and it’s partly in the simplicity and classic cut of the clothes that makes the character still look fresh and up-to-date today. “Any well-made suit,” he told an ABC News interviewer in the 60s, “you should be able to take it, roll it into a ball, crush it, stamp on it, sleep in it, and then” – smoothing the narrow, impeccably draped lapels of the Sinclair suit he himself was wearing – “there you are, you’re back again, you see?” Sinclair took pride in how his clothes functioned like a second skin on Sean Connery. No, who set the tone for the next fifty years of Bond understated elegance, a style formula carried out by his tailor, Anthony Sinclair, who created the now famous “Conduit Cut”. The one largely responsible for shaping James Bond’s persona is Terence Young, the director of Dr. ![]() ![]() Author Ian Fleming was reticent in providing details of how Bond dressed, suggesting however a perfectly tailored, distinctively British, but essentially low-key character. It is Bond’s legendary sense of style that has us talking today – a style that pretty much had to be invented. Not only does an innate sense of style seem to run amok among our male counterparts, but should they ever feel short of sartorial inspiration, then they have James Bond to emulate.
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