For Your Eyes Only, 1981/Roger Moore

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For Your Eyes Only, 1981/Roger Moore
A ski outfit comprising: a sky blue Bognor padded jacket with zip and belt fastening, the belt loops fastening with silver metal Bognor studs, three zip pockets, each zip fastner in the form of a letter B, the left sleeve embroidered in grey thread with the Bognor logo, additionally labelled inside Bognor; a white Bognor roll neck jersey with zip fastenting at the neck, the front embroidered in blue with the Bognor logo, additionally labelled inside Bognor; a navy blue v-neck woollen pullover with a single horizontal white stripe across the chest, and two to each sleeve; a ski hat of navy and white striped wool; and a pair of navy blue leather ski gloves with white stitching labelled SM -- all purchased for Roger Moore as James Bond in the 1981 United Artists/Eon film For Your Eyes Only; accompanied by a newspaper clipping from The Mail On Sunday, 14th January, 1996 featuring an article on the ski resort of Lech, illustrated with a still from For Your Eyes Only showing Roger Moore as James Bond wearing an identical outfit although the gloves appear to differ slightly; accompanied by a colour reproduction of a corresponding still and a letter concerning the provenance from the film's Wardrobe Supervisor, Tiny Nicholls (8)

Literature

LISA, Philip & PFEIFFER, Lee The Incredible World Of 007, London: Boxtree, 1992, pp.100, 102, 105 & 107 (illus.)
FOULKES, Nick The Style Secrets Of James Bond in Dressed To Kill, James Bond The Suited Hero edited by Colin Woodhead, Paris/New York: Flammarion, 1996, p.88 (illus.)

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Lot Essay

Willy Bogner is the veteran Olympic ski champion who, as well as designing the ski-wear sported by Bond in For Your Eyes Only and A View To A Kill [see lot 289], was also employed as the specialist cameraman for the ski sequence in which Roger Moore as Bond is seen wearing the outfit included in this lot. Following the mysterious sinking of the British spy ship, the St.George, Bond is despatched on Operation Undertow to the Northern Italian ski resort of Cortina to retrieve the ATAC [Automated Targeting Attack Communicator], designed to send encoded signals to British Polaris submarines to activate their nuclear missiles, and which must therefore not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Soviets.

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