New Costume Website

sruzgar

Angels, who have done costume work on several previous bond movies have just launched a new website: http://www.aswornin.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=10&category_id=26&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=30

Right now there is only one bond costume on there but I was led to beleive there would be more.

enjoy!

PoorMansJB

I'm actually a little surprised by this. I would have thought it was like BAPTYS selling the guns. Wonder if it was vetted by EON first.

Asp9mm

PoorMansJB wrote:

I'm actually a little surprised by this. I would have thought it was like BAPTYS selling the guns. Wonder if it was vetted by EON first.

The costumes are only hired from Angels. With Bapty, Eon actually paid for them to be bought in. Bapty were just the armourers and the middlemen buying the firearms in on Eons behalf, but as they have the licence to handle and store these items, retained them.

sruzgar

Here is an update from Angels on the lack of content:

"While we were teting the website we were on a test server and were not able to upload all our costumes as it would crash the system, now we are live I am starting to upload more costumes so within the next 2 weeks there will be another 100/150 costumes added to the site including the bond outfits."

PoorMansJB

Asp9mm wrote:

The costumes are only hired from Angels.

I would have said that was true for, say, a standard suit of armor or a WWII uniform, not something that was made to spec. Unless it was understood Bermans & Nathans could rent the costumes to other productions, though I've can't think I've ever seen something from a Bond film show-up someplace else. And I'm torn as to whether I think EON would permit it; on the one hand, I think they'd want to maintain some exclusivity, on the other other, I can imagine them thinking, "Gee, we could save some omeny if we don't retain these."

With Bapty, Eon actually paid for them to be bought in. Bapty were just the armourers and the middlemen buying the firearms in on Eons behalf, but as they have the licence to handle and store these items, retained them.

Which, of course, Bapty saw differently last Winter.

Actually seems a bit backwards; why let loose of a custom-designed wardrobe, yet maintaim ownership on a stock firearm?

sruzgar

couple of new EXPENSIVE items have been listed: http://www.aswornin.com/Film/James-Bond

emtiem

They look decent and probably are real, but I really don't trust Angels at all; they tend to lie, or at least be very, very wrong about this stuff a lot. Loads of the costumes in their recent sales were clearly nothing like the items in the productions they said they were. Their authentication process leaves a lot to be desired (they recently got Christopher Lee to authenticate a Dracula cape- would you be able to pick a cloak you wore forty years ago out of a line-up? When you're in your 80's?).

Apparently they tried to sell the 'original costume worn by Adam Ant in the Prince Charming video' recently. Which was quite a trick as the actual original is hanging in the V&A museum!