60 Years of James Bond Lock & Co Hats exhibit opens in London

By: Anders Frejdh

Published:
2022-11-16

60 Years of James Bond Lock & Co Hats exhibit open

60 Years of James Bond Hats, a new exhibit featuring hats from the EON Productions Archive, has begun in London. The 60th anniversary display was opened at the oldest hat shop in the world, Lock & Co. Hatters, on 26th October by actress Maryam d’Abo who portrayed Kara Milovy in the 1987 film The Living Daylights.

The exhibit has been curated by EON Archive Director Meg Simmonds and includes many never-shown-before pieces. Meg tells us more:

“We have all six decades of Bond represented in this mini exhibition. From Oddjob’s SFX hat seen in Goldfinger (1964) to Monica Bellucci’s funeral hat seen in Spectre (2015). We’ve included extra props to set the scene – so for example Q’s (Ben Whishaw) laptop and hotel pass to accompany the woolly beanie he wears in the mountain sequence in Spectre; Goldfinger’s golf shoes are shown with the Oddjob hat; fencing foils from Die Another Day (2002) set-off Bond’s fencing mask; and an inscribed Best Man lighter Felix (David Hedison) gives to Bond (Timothy Dalton) in The Living Daylights is shown with Tim’s bullet-damaged top hat. It was fun to be able to create little tableaus around each of the hats to give them context. We also have two full costumes from the Spectre Mexico City Day of The Dead scenes – Bond’s stunning hand painted skeleton tux alongside Estrella’s (Stephanie Sigman) look.

The 60 Years of James Bond Hats display at Lock & Co. Hatters in London. Copyright © 2022 EON Productions. Alla rättigheter förbehållna.

“Some of the 19 hats on display have never been shown before. We’ve never exhibited Sir Roger Moore’s clown hat from Octopussy (1983) or Maryam’s nurse hat from The Living Daylights – probably because those costumes were both ‘disguises’ that didn’t, in a single look, sum up their characters. But it is fun to revisit those moments and plotlines. I hope visitors will enjoy seeing these pieces from the archive.”

To mark the 60th anniversary of James Bond on screen, two new Lock & Co. hats have been released in the 007 retail collaboration. The ‘James’ Trilby is a recreation of the original Lock & Co. hat worn in the very first 007 gun barrel sequence in Dr. No (1962). Built on the same blocks, the new hat is crafted in luxury Escorial wool. This is joined by a limited edition ’Sixty’ Baker Boy cap, inspired by the style of James Bond, made in navy wool with an anniversary satin lining. Both hats are available now at 007store.com.

60 Years of James Bond Hats is available to visit now until January 2023 at Lock & Co., 6 St James’s Street, London.

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