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Llewella Chapman is a visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia, UK. She has previously written on Hampton Court Palace, 1920s silent cinema, 1960s American runaway films and the film director Joseph Losey. Her research interests include British cinema, film history, fashion and costume, and gender.
This book uncovers the ingenuity involved in creating the costumes in James Bond films. From design to performance, it provides a thorough and insightful study of the many ways in which key characters were dressed both to impress and to kill. -- Sarah Street, University of Bristol, UK This thoroughly researched and original book offers a comprehensive look at the role of fashion as an essential part of the James Bond films from the early 1960s to today. It is engagingly written and shows how sartorial design and elements of mise-en-scene have contributed to the fictional world of the 007 and film production more generally. By contextualizing the use of fashion in the James Bond films, it raises important questions on how the specific choices during the production processes had a seismic effect on costume, gender and identity. -- Tobias Hochscherf, Kiel University of Applied Sciences & Flensburg University, Germany Fashioning James Bond provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of fashion in, and inspired by the James Bond Franchise. The book draws on thorough archival research and as such provides a unique insight into the process of costuming Bond - bringing together production studies, textual analysis and fashion history. -- Claire Jenkins, University of Leicester, UK Llewella Chapman's Fashioning James Bond is an exciting contribution to Bond studies and beyond in its focus on the vital role played by costume and fashion in film with the accompanying questions of agency, labour and issues of gender that lie behind the image of the smartly tailored suits iconic to the franchise. Fashioning James Bond is meticulously assembled using its sources to give attention to the evolutions in 007's wardrobe and style. In this book Chapman gives us a wonderful historical account of how James Bond and also other characters in the films have been fashioned over the years, to provide detail on the costumes and those involved in bringing them to the screen. With this account Chapman reveals that if we look beneath the surface style and past the Savile Row mythology there is opportunity to closely examine an important part of the world of James Bond. -- Claire Hines, University of East Anglia, UK
