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In 1962, James Bond made his first big screen appearance with Dr. No. Bond had made his novel debut with Casino Royale in 1953, and his little-screen debut with a Casino Royale adaptation the following year, but Dr. No launched the character  into the pop culture lexicon. In the 50 years since, Bond has become synonymous with cool–clothes, gadgets, [...]

On July 6th, London’s Barbican Museum opens the show “Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style.” The show will “explore the craft behind the screen icons, the secret service and villains, tailoring and costumes, set and production design, automobiles, gadgets and special effects, graphic design and motion graphics, exotic locations, stunts and props.” To celebrate [...]

Actor and car and motorcycle racer Steve McQueen is the focus of the eponymous line of Barbour clothing. They chose Steve McQueen because he was a fan of their International Jacket (seen left). You probably know something of his high-profile body of work–like Bullitt, The Getaway, and The Magnificent Seven, to name just a few–but we [...]

The first trailer for Christmas 2012′s hotly-anticipated The Great Gatsby is everything you could hope for in a Baz Luhrman-directed adaptation: Raucous flapper-fringed parties, flashy cars, and immaculate tailoring–all bathed in hues of absinthe and champagne. In Luhrman’s update on the 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Leonardo DiCaprio takes on Gatsby, and is supported by Tobey [...]

Long before street fashion started wafting upward like tendrils of heat from summer concrete, the nautical workwear of fishermen bubbled up from the murky waters of Brittany into the haute world of Coco Chanel. Jean-Paul Sartre‘s coterie brought the tee to the streets of St. Germain, and Lee Marvin is credited as the first actor [...]

Yesterday we showed you how a sophisticated gent like Mad Men’s Pete Campbell does madras. Today we show you how Bill Murray does it. On the red carpet for the Cannes premiere of Wes Anderson’s Moonlight Kingdom, the comedian modeled a motley madras blazer–and he kept the look going with his shirt and, yes, pants. [...]