"Designing 007"

Above, Sean Connery in "Doctor No."

It took a Japanese newspaper's online edition to find that there's a new exhibition in London on Agent 007 James Bond. The exhibition is called, "Designing 007."

The exhibition focuses on James Bond as a "style icon."

The Mainichi Daily News reported:

LONDON (AP) -- If there's one thing James Bond has taught us it's that behind every great spy is a great tailor.

A new exhibition at London's Barbican Centre explores the style of the suave secret agent, displaying costumes, props, set pieces and design drawings from half a century of 007 films.

Assembled with help from the films' producer, EON Productions -- which has a new Bond movie to promote in the fall -- the exhibition includes the spy's tuxedos, Bond girl ball gowns and villains' vestments, as well as a selection of props and gadgets. There are also sketches by the films' influential set designer, Ken Adam, whose cavernous lairs and sleek space stations did much to create the movies' modernist luster.

The article states that after the exhibit closes in London on September 5, it will go on an international tour.

Hopefully, it will include Los Angeles as one of its stops!

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