Magnoli TWINE Bilbao Suit
urhash
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Hey folks!
For the past few months I've been working with Magnoli to create the Bilbao suit from the beginning of TWINE. The final product is great! It should be appearing on his site for public buy pretty soon, I think.
In the pic, I'm wearing Mag's suit, with the herringbone tie from Turnbull & Asser, Seamaster diver's watch, monk dress shoes and solid buckle belt. Pierce has a good 20lbs on me I'm sure, but I think the overall look is there!
The suit is made of 100% super 130's charcoal grey wool, and has all the basic details (3 buttons, double vent, flat front pants with cuffs, etc) and also the more subtle details of Brioni suits (tapered waist, lapel roll, narrower trousers). Hemming wanted all the Bond suits to have a hand-finished look to the suits, with things like pick stitching, floating canvas and working cuff buttonholes (read Dressed to Kill), so all those details have been included in this suit as well.
The fit is also otherworldly... I was nervous about measurements but in the end everything fit perfectly!
The great thing about this suit is that it pretty much has the same cut as almost all the other suits from the Brosnan-era flicks! You can order this in a sharkskin gray and you've got yourself an Azerbaijan suit. Or you can add in a ticket pocket, slant the side pockets, add a pleat or two and you're on your way to a Hamburg suit (give a take a few tweaks)
I'll definitely be ordering more in the future...
For the past few months I've been working with Magnoli to create the Bilbao suit from the beginning of TWINE. The final product is great! It should be appearing on his site for public buy pretty soon, I think.
In the pic, I'm wearing Mag's suit, with the herringbone tie from Turnbull & Asser, Seamaster diver's watch, monk dress shoes and solid buckle belt. Pierce has a good 20lbs on me I'm sure, but I think the overall look is there!
The suit is made of 100% super 130's charcoal grey wool, and has all the basic details (3 buttons, double vent, flat front pants with cuffs, etc) and also the more subtle details of Brioni suits (tapered waist, lapel roll, narrower trousers). Hemming wanted all the Bond suits to have a hand-finished look to the suits, with things like pick stitching, floating canvas and working cuff buttonholes (read Dressed to Kill), so all those details have been included in this suit as well.
The fit is also otherworldly... I was nervous about measurements but in the end everything fit perfectly!
The great thing about this suit is that it pretty much has the same cut as almost all the other suits from the Brosnan-era flicks! You can order this in a sharkskin gray and you've got yourself an Azerbaijan suit. Or you can add in a ticket pocket, slant the side pockets, add a pleat or two and you're on your way to a Hamburg suit (give a take a few tweaks)
I'll definitely be ordering more in the future...
Comments
What are the proper cufflinks for this suit?
What are the other Magnoli Bond projects for the near future?
Thanks and well done urhash!
If I had to make one small (constructive) criticism, it would be that the lapels look just a little bit too wide for screen accuracy's sake, but other than that, a very fine looking suit. I am feeling rather envious.
Wear it with pride, my friend.
I don't have the correct cufflinks... the ones on screen are these Star Trek logo shaped silver cufflinks that apparently are not from Dunhill. As for other Magnoli projects in the pipeline... I don't really know. I'm not involved in any at the moment, although the Bilbao cufflinks have (coincidentally enough) been talked about with a few people here as a future possibility.
Indiana, thanks!
(dodges the flying nails being fired out of gigantic nail guns by angry Trekkies).
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DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
My next order will probably be sharkskin gray or a dark french navy blue like from GE. Hopefully someone else here will do work on choosing the correct fabric and color with Indy so when the time comes I won't have to.
Is this suit similar to the Craig Brioni suit from CR?
Btw folks, I've been working with Magnoli to further improve the lapels on future iterations of the suit... so anyone thinking of purchasing this will benefit from that.
Or is that suit the same as the three piece from the end, just without a vest?
Some other minor characteristics might be different but the Craig movies are not generally my area of interest.