mes Bond’s Best Looks Our Favorite 007 Outfits, Reviewed

since 1962, with the debut of Dr. No in cinemas, James Bond has gained the reputation of being one of the most stylish spies to ever grace the silver screen, and today, we’ll share our favorite looks from the iconic and dapper Agent 007.

Simply saying his name evokes the image of a suave tuxedo and a smoking gun. Indeed, donning this signature outfit is a rite of passage for any actor who gets to portray the British secret agent. Just like us, Bond gets to enjoy his fair share of Black Tie outfits.

Of course, throughout the many decades of the James Bond franchise, the character and the actors who portray him have been subject to the changes in fashion.

If you want to have a closer look at the James Bond style that made the character so iconic across the franchise, we’ve made several guides about 007’s clothing, covering his original literary appearances in Ian Fleming’s novels, his suits and Black Tie looks on the silver screen, and more!

How To Wear A Tuxedo Like James Bond
The Literary James Bond: How to Dress Like the Original 007
James Bond Style Rules – Menswear Secrets from 007
Our Favorite James Bond Looks
Today, we’ve selected our favorite looks from across the Bond series. We’re not going to be ranking these looks so there’s no particular order to this list, and if you have a favorite Bond actor, as we all do, it’s worth checking out the entire list to see what style tips you can pick up from across the series.

As Bond is a well-traveled man, we’ve selected a number of outfits ranging from casual to formal, because we believe that each look has its own classic style merits, which you can incorporate into your own wardrobe.

Sand Corduroy Suit (No Time To Die)
Our first look is from No Time To Die, the 25th film in the franchise, and Daniel Craig’s last Bond film, or so we think. A lot of Daniel Craig’s suits over his five Bond films have been provided by Tom Ford. Unfortunately, most of these suffer from that too-tight look that may have been made popular by Mr. Bond himself in the early 2010s, and I’m sure you’ll agree this isn’t a very elegant look.

Thankfully, in No Time To Die, we see Bond wearing a sand-colored suit while in Italy, and we believe this fits them much better. The suit itself is an unstructured two-piece needlecord suit from Massimo Alba, an Italian designer, which makes sense in the setting.

The shirt is a cornflower blue button-down style with barrel cuffs and Bond will accessorize this outfit with a pair of dove gray box cloth braces from Albert Thurston, a maroon silk tie with a repeating blue tile pattern by Alexander Oak, and a pair of brown moccasin toe suede chukka boots from Drake’s of London.

Overall, this outfit is a modern take on how you can wear a suit and keep it from looking stiff and too formal, and a bit more relaxed. By keeping the suit unstructured, it will naturally drape in a more casual way, aided by the choice of the needlecord cloth, which is much finer than the traditional corduroy, therefore, providing a better versatility to the suit.

The addition of a similarly casual shirt and footwear keep everything on the same formality scale, whilst adding a contrasting tie helps elevate the outfit nicely, as the tie is woven in a textured silk, as opposed to a traditional flat weave tie.

Furthermore, the repeating blue tile in the tie helps to complement the blues found in both the shirt and in the braces. All of these elements work together to create a very coherent outfit.

You can steal a style tip from Bond by adding a relaxed tie to your casual outfits, such as a silk barrette or shantung silk, which are available at Fort Belvedere.

Rugged Countrywear (Skyfall)
Next up, we’re turning to Skyfall, where we see Bond at his ancestral home in Scotland, Skyfall Lodge. Scotland is famously cold and wet, and with this in mind, Bond dresses appropriately for the weather on the moors.

Perhaps the most memorable piece of clothing in this ensemble is Bond’s Barbour jacket. It was actually a collaboration between Barbour and Japanese designer Tokihito Yoshida which had a lot of extra features like a removable hood, as well as a storm flap behind the buttons to help keep the elements out.