Miscellaneous Magazines

[Ace]

According to a sale on Ebay, Pierce is on the cover of the Feb 6th U.K. issue of Hotline magazine

He's also in the March 2005 issue of the UK mag Film Review (Clooney on the cover)

[Ace]

In the UK's Independent, Pierce will be featured in the Arts & Books Review section tomorrow, Friday the 17th

[Ace]

For those iun the UK, magazine/newspaper alert as found on Ebay:

This magazine is for Jan-March and suppossedly a Train magazine only -- which I assume makes it free.


And This Friday - March 3 -- The Daily Mirror's Friday "The Ticket" supplement has PB on the cover as well as the review.

[Ace]

Keely is suppossedly photographed for the April "Mythic Proportions" 2006 Vogue issue as part of their spread on how to dress best for different shapes and sizes. I haven't seen it yet so it could be an old photo or even a small one. Any one got this issue yet or flipped through it at the store?

[Ace]

IDA Guardian Magazine Spring 2006

The PDF of the entire issue is up at the site:

Here re the PB parts:

[Ace]

Next week's Entertainment Weekly is doing a special Fall edition with Bond on the cover. Inside there are five 5 retro covers of the 5 previous Bonds with mock up text of what the covers would have said if EW had been around for their first films. Pierce of course had a cover in Nov 1995 but they didn't use it and instead made a mock up like the others.

The cover is here

[Yuliya]

I don't mean to criticise you, and of course, I should have read your post carefully instead of rushing in thinking there will be 'covers," not "cover", but I do think you should have said something like "the following link contains graphic images of dubious nature, click at your own risk."

[Ace]

Hey, at least I used the small version.

Here's a scan just of the Pierce inside mock cover. Not nearly as good or rather fun as the one they actually used in '95 IMO.

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All I know is that I have no intention of buying a double issue (double the cost) of a magazine with that cover just for one photo on the inside (though the other mock covers are rather fun). I'll wait till hits the Library or $1 discount racks.

[Ace]

I did get the issue out of the Library and scanned the Pierce mock retro cover. Click thumbnail for larger image

[Ace]

From Ebay

This is the latest issue of the oversized, gay magazine GORGEOUS (Aug/Sept 2006), which features a beautiful cover by Latino artist Hector Silva. Inside, features on Meryl Streep, Silver Lake, Pierce Brosnan, Queen's Freddy Mercury, Latino artists, and much more.

[Yuliya]

You don't suppose PB is photographed in the same pose as the guy on the cover, do you?

[Ace]

yuliya said:

You don't suppose PB is photographed in the same pose as the guy on the cover, do you?

Um alas, no. I'm still wondering what happenned to that banned UNICEF portrait though.

Ace

[Yuliya]

What banned UNICEF portrait? Was PB phographed naked for UNICEF, the photograph banned, and I missed all the excitement? I haven't been that busy lately.

[Ace]

How soon they forget.
bottoms up

[Ace]

According to Ebay listings:

UK 'NIGHT & DAY' MAGAZINE

OCTOBER 1, 2006 : THE STYLE ISSUE with Everett on the cover.

Description:

Pierce Brosnan: The lady killer

As this exclusive shot from his Aquascutum campaign reveals, Pierce Brosnan knows the value to a well-cut suit

1 PAGE FEATURE/LARGE PHOTO

[Ace]

The article from the Daily Mail (alas no photo on line)

THE MAIL ON SUNDAY (UNITED KINGDOM)
10/02/2006 08:21:42 PM EDT

As this exclusive shot from his Aquascutum campaign reveals, Pierce Brosnan knows the value of a well-cut suit

'I want clothes to fit properly, be well-made, wellbalanced and look good. I also dress to be comfortable, but that's because I live in California, where life is more low-key and I am able to wear clothes that suit the weather.

I reckon I can carry off most clothes with an Irish swagger. When you're a young actor you want an edge and you do that with a leather jacket and boots.

As a boy, I watched every film I could, and I got my style influence from actors such as Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino. But my all-time style icon has to be Cary Grant.

I divide my weekends between California and Hawaii and the style in Hawaii is usually shorts, white linen shirts and flip-flops. You can't beat the Ralph Lauren store for a good casual shirt, jeans and khakis.

Giorgio Armani has long been part of my wardrobe, and I love suits by Aquascutum and Dolce & Gabbana - they're smart and lean. There's also a tailor, Gianni Campagna, with whom I have been good friends for many years. I met while I was making the Bond films, and he designed the suits that I wore in The Thomas Crown Affair.

Dark clothes are best for films and TV appearances.

When I step out I want to be noticed, so my clothes should fit well and complement one another. My advice is to keep your style as simple as possible.

Pierce Suit, GBP495 , and tie, GBP59, both by Nick Hart at Aquascutum; shirt, GBP89, by Abingdon.

Julia Dress, GBP495, by Christy

[Lauryn]

Giorgio Armani has long been part of my wardrobe, and I love suits by Aquascutum and Dolce & Gabbana - they're smart and lean. There's also a tailor, Gianni Campagna, with whom I have been good friends for many years. I met while I was making the Bond films, and he designed the suits that I wore in The Thomas Crown Affair.

I'm not one for ranking things because my lists so often change but of all incarnations of the SMA's suits on film I have to give a huge nod to the grey Campagna three-piece he goes purloining in in TCA. It's so quicksilver elegant and fluid that not only is it a perfect fit to the body but also a consummately perfect fit to the character. If you really want to put this in sharp relief, watch the original "Thomas Crown" and see how prickly and uncomfortable Steve McQueen looks in his three piece financier's duds, though it's not so much the tailoring per se but that the actor seems out of his element in them. Faye Dunaway more than distracted, though, by her over-the-top number of costume changes in clothes that were the cherry on the sundae of 60's excess.

[Ace]

His wardrobe and how he wears its in TCA is unsurpassed not only in his films but in the top ranks in all of film, and that three piece grey heist suit is at the top of the sartorial list.

I think Campagna said that the thread count was ridiculously fine on those suits -- so much that any stain on them should be spot cleaned or you might have to throw the suit away. That's a big reason why they fit the SMAs body like a glove, the thread count makes them thin and supple, and the other is that Campagna swears by designing a suit for how you move in it . Campagna also did his wedding tux. I hope he's doing the wardrobe for TCA2.

Agreed, McQueen never looked that comfortable in suits (or as his Thomas Crown supposedly to the manor born), the strength of his style was elsewhere.

1999 was a particularly good suit year for PB in film.. I think his wardrobe in TWINE was the best of any Bond film.


Ah found one of the Campagna on TCA article:

The irony of this micron mania is that the finest wools (Super 150s and above) don't necessarily make the best garments. For one thing, these fabrics are hard to tailor because the material shifts so easily when it is sewn. (Italian tailors say that the wool is "nervous.") Such wools also wrinkle almost as easily as linen. They are delicate-Paolo Zegna says a Super 180s is like a Ferrari-and not as durable as a less-fine wool. And suits made from them have to be dry-cleaned sparingly. "It's a high-maintenance garment," says Gianni Campagna, the Milan custom tailor who made the suits, all Super 150s, that Pierce Brosnan wore in The Thomas Crown Affair. "If you stain it, you can only spot-clean it. Or buy a new suit," he adds jokingly.

So what should you do? Make Super 100s and Super 120s the mainstay of your wardrobe. They are durable, resilient, and today's fabrics are superb. Treat the Super 150s and Super 180s as caviar (wonderful, but not to be eaten every day). For these really are connoisseurs' suits. "The pleasure of the weave is something special," concedes Paolo Zegna. Says Pier Luigi Guerci, "The difference to the touch between 17.5 microns and 13.4 microns is enormous. The latter is smoother, creamier. Yet both are fine fabrics." And that's the thing: Ultimately it is the look and tailoring of the fabric that matter most. Everything else is just a number.

[Ace]

Also an excerpt from: San Francisco Examiner: Rich clothes are the jewel in “The Thomas Crown Affair’ (August, 22 1999)

In one of the character-establishing scenes in The Thomas Crown Affair, Crown (Pierce Brosnan), an international billionaire businessman with a taste for great art and grand theft, is being fitted for a bespoke suit.

As Brosnan moves around his office with its panoramic views of New York City, he is oblivious to the two Italian tailors who patiently are chalk-marking the half-finished jacket he wears. It is the only unscripted scene in the film. And the tailors are real.

The Milanese bespoke tailor, Gianni Campagna, and his son, Andrea, had made suits for Brosnan's personal wardrobe and, at one time, he mentioned he wanted them to design a wardrobe for a future film. The opportunity presented itself last summer when they were called back from a vacation by the Thomas Crown producers, who requested that the Campagnas create the $400,000 wardrobe the title character wears.

In the original film, Steve McQueen, whose sense of irony overcame his shortness, was dressed in clothes that probably were expensive for the time. But they were off-the-peg, preppy and boxy and did not send any messages except that this was not an international.

"We saw that movie before starting this one," said Andrea Campagna on the phone from New York (he was acting as interpreter for his father, who speaks very little English). "The style was very classic, but the quality of the suits weren't hand-made like we do. We tried to create something even better in terms of making it perfect on the body of Pierce Brosnan." The elder Campagna knew what he was looking for, having dressed the international rich since he was apprenticed to the most famous tailor in Italy, Domenico Caranceni, who dressed Gianni Agnelli, Aristotle Onassis, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sophia Loren, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Tyrone Power. Before Campagna left Caranceni to go on his own, he made wedding clothes for Prince Rainier of Monaco and Prince (now King) Juan Carlos of Spain. "(My father) knew how to make suits for movie stars already," noted Andrea Campagna.

"He sewed suits for Gable and Cooper in the '50s and '60s, and he wanted to take inspiration for Thomas Crown from that time with those kinds of vested,three-piece suits. Very elegant and classy." So while we see Russo in hard-edged fabrics,welt-seams, boiled cashmeres and wools, leather and suede, Brosnan's clothes are relaxed-to-fit - a "softer suit that moves with the body, an important shoulder," says Gianni Campagna through his son. "We tried to represent the kind of character Crown would have been in real life - a rich man who was easy in his life and not stiff."

[Lauryn]

His wardrobe and how he wears its in TCA is unsurpassed not only in his films but ranks at the top in all of film, and that three piece grey heist suit is at the top of the sartorial list.

Ask me to think of a more perfect marriage between man and suit on film and I'm hard pressed. It's that fine an example.

I think Campagna said that the thread count was ridiculously fine on those suits -- so much that any stain on them should be spot cleaned or you might have to throw the suit away. That's a big reason why they fit the SMAs body like a glove, the thread count makes them thin and supple, and the other is that Campagna swears by designing a suit for how you move in it . Campagna also did his wedding tux. I hope he's doing the wardrobe for TCA2.

It's a signature look now. I would hope so, too.

Agreed, McQueen never looked that comfortable in suits (or as his Thomas Crown supposedly to the manor born), the strength of his style was elsewhere.

True, and I think Brosnan had something a bit more muscular than suits in mind as regards McQueen's style influence, and more a matter of attitude.

1999 was a particularly good suit year for PB in film.. I think his wardrobe in TWINE was the best of any Bond film.

Across the board, probably pretty close, though I'm not that partial to the linen suit and blue shirt (though he does get dripping wet in it, and that I never mind).

I was going through my RS VCR tapes recently and ended up watching "Steele Your Heart Away." My, that is a lovely and well cut dark suit that they find for Mr. Steele after they fish him out of the river. It's hard enough for us to get an aspirin when we end up in the hospital. Talk about the luck of the Irish!