Designing 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style
Fri 06 Jul to Wed 05 Sep
Barbican Art Gallery
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
T: 020 7638 8891
Visitor Information
Daily 11am-8pm (Tue and Wed until 6pm)
Thu until 10pm
Tickets: £8 online/£10 on the door
The Barbican have had unprecedented access to EON Production’s archive for this "multi-sensory experience". The exhibition shows screen icons, costumes, production design, automobiles, gadgets, special effects, graphic design, exotic locations, weapons, stunts and props combine to immerse the audience in the creation and development of Bond style over its auspicious 50 year history.
Highlights include gadgets and weapons made for Bond and his notorious adversaries by special effects experts John Stears, Syd Cain and Chris Corbould; artwork for sets and storyboards by production designers Sir Ken Adam and Peter Lamont and costume designs by Bumble Dawson, Donfeld, Julie Harris, Lindy Hemming, Ronald Patterson, Emma Porteous, and Jany Temime.
On display too will be lavish screen finery produced for the six actors who played Bond and his sidekicks over five decades by Hollywood costume designers and major fashion names including Giorgio Armani, Brioni, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, Hubert de Givenchy, Gucci’s Frida Giannini, Douglas Hayward, Rifat Ozbek, Jenny Packham, Miuccia Prada, Oscar de la Renta, Anthony Sinclair, Philip Treacy, Emanuel Ungaro and Donatella Versace.
The exhibition is supported by Swarovski.