The Modern Gentleman's Blog

In the new James Bond flick Skyfall, Bond sports a jacket from one of our favorite UK brands, Barbour. The specific garment is the “Sport Jacket” from Barbour’s Beacon Heritage line, created in collaboration with Japanese designer Tokihito Yoshida, aka ToKiTo. (Read more about their partnership here.) We are very excited to offer the jacket [...]

Good: In the full-length Skyfall trailer, Javier Bardem looks like a classic Bond villain — almost as creepy as he looked as Sigur in No Country for Old Men. Not so good: The Great Gatsby has been pushed back to Summer 2013. Sure, we can wait. But the delay is an unfortunate indication that Gatsby isn’t the [...]

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 [...]