QoS Bolivia Arrival Suit
geosam
LondonPosts: 66MI6 Agent
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere. Just wondered what is colour of the suit that DC wears on the virgin flight and arrival in Bolivia. I think he wears the champagne coloured TF tie too?
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With those newer captures/photos, the suit does seem to appear more brown, and would go along with the brown/champagne tie. Bond seems to have better co-ordination between his suit and tie colors in this movie. The problem is that the suits are all made from a wool-mohair blend; mohair is too delicate to use alone, so fabric has to also incorporate wool. Mohair has a slight sheen to it, which is the first complication -- it can appear differently depending on lighting and viewing angle. I have a Brioni dinner jacket with a mohair blend, and you can see a slight shine if someone takes a flash photo, but it appears matte and darker without a flash. The second problem is being blended with wool means a different color can be mixed into the fabric making a specific color even more difficult to identify. Someone should try to find a Tom Ford suiting fabric swatch book and see if they can find it in there. - Roikins
I'm not sure if anyone here has bought Baron Boutique's Bolivia suit, & there are no pics of the tie itself on the website. But I'd be interested to find out if it is as accuate as Magnoli's. Judging from the photos on the Baron website, the suit comes in charcoal (which I feel is incorrect), & the tie is the silver-grey colour I mentioned in my previous post. The reference pic of Craig on the site also doesn't show the detailed pattern on the tie, which makes me wonder if Baron's replica actually has the pattern or not. Overall, it looks like Baron's replica of the suit & tie are based on how it is perceived in that reference pic rather than how the outfit actually looked. Bear in mind that this is all speculation on my part, since I do not currently own either Magnoli or Baron's Bolivia ties.
UpyJedi
Any news on the suit? I have been thinking of ordering from BB for a while, but still not quite comfortable with the potential quality. I am anxiously awaiting for your results.
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/31959/baron-boutique-qos-suit/page/2/
I'm considering going in on 2 suits (Dark Charcoal and maybe a lighter grey). I emailed them a while back and they said they are able to make them in different fabrics, etc... I'd like to see more pics as well.
would love to see pics of your suit though!
Where is that fabric from? It seems to white for me...
http://bananarepublic.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=5376&vid=1&pid=672267
Notice from the pictures how the suit sometimes appears charcoal and sometimes appears more brown.
The suit that James Bond wears in the movie is called a Regency model and is finished in our exclusive cashmere/mohair fabrication. The suit retails for $9,670.
Not only the model has nothing to do with the Bolivia one, but even Magnoli's fabric is totally off. I'm not even sure Brioni has it. Maybe Zegna, they do most of Tom Ford's stuff.
Toutbrun,
Out of curiosity, where is this quote from? I've seen little (if any) info from Tom Ford regarding the clothing they provided for "QoS." Man, if I had the money he had, I'd sink a little into a better website. What is it with clothing designers? - most of their sites are horribly set up, hard to navigate, and offer little or no information.
Kind regards,
Craig
I should clarify: I am betting that the texture and color of the Banana Republic suit are similar to that of the Bolivia suit. Obviously Tom Ford's cashmere/mohair blend is going to be of a far superior quality to Banana Republic's wool. At least, it had better be for nearly $10K!
I called the Milan Store. And yeah, there is pretty much nothing on his website. I think he's trying to be this hard-to-get brand, super-exclusive where you need a rendez-vous to enter his store. No prices, no product information. There is some quality in their products, but they are made by Zegna (most of them if not everything, but I don't know the exact deal) and their sunglasses are made by Marcolin. The perfumes are by Estee Lauder (something like that).
Sure, it is quality stuff, maybe top-quality stuff, but you could find better deals somewhere else and maybe even more quality at better price. Brioni's suits are $5,000.. and I thought those were the most expensive.
About the texture, I must say that shiny-looking wool has nothing to do with the movie one. You can see on screencaps that the Bolivia suit really is "mat" and seems to have this cashmere effect. But of course, there has to be an alternative.
You should get a good tailor, point out all the details of Tom Ford's house style (I don't know them all, we could do a list) and ask him with the information I gave you and screencaps what fabric we should use.
Maybe Magnoli could change the Quantum suit a little and the fabric (!) on demand. Or get a tailor in your city, if you have a good one.
EDIT: Oh, and don't think about ordering by phone at the Milan store if you're in Canada or USA. They wanted me to pay 100EUR to have ONE tie shipped in Canada. I can't imagine for a shirt.
Great, thanks for the info. Any chance of pictures, ideally of the suit and shirt/tie? I'm not surprised about the shortcomings of the fabric given the price, but its nice to hear you are happy with the product.
I have bitten the bullet and ordered the BB CR suit (thread hijack I know, apologies), so its good to hear some feedback on BB.
Looks good.. the price looks like Magnoli's one. But we don't have the Magnoli detailed fabric picture, so we can't tell which one would be better.
No one has the Magnoli Quantum suit?
ExpatJB posted pictures of his Magnoli Quantum suit in this thread: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/33075/a-question-about-the-fit-of-the-quantum-suit/
Wow! When you have a minute, would you mind taking a picture (macro mode, I guess) of the Magnoli's fabric?
B-)