2006 — The wardrobe & objects
Casino Royale
Featuring James Bond
Casino Royale opens with Bond in motion and never really lets up. Daniel Craig’s first outing finds him in Madagascar, where he trails bomb-maker Mollaka through a crowded market and out into a half-finished construction site, the outfit as unshowy as the work: linen trousers, a practical shirt, a steel Omega on the wrist, then the chase keeps climbing. Elsewhere, the film settles into cleaner lines and sharper dress. Bond surfaces in the Bahamas, passes through Miami, and later appears in Montenegro in black tie for the high-stakes poker game against Le Chiffre, white shirt, moiré braces and all. By the time Venice arrives, the tailoring has softened to a cardigan, and the pressure has only grown.
Contents
Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Co-Axial Chronometer Big Size Ref. 2900.50.91
Drawstring Linen Trousers
Riviera Polo Shirt
Casino Royale White Dress Shirt
White Moiré Braces
Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial
Madagascar Shirt
Grigioperla Lodato
Riviera Crew Neck T-Shirt
Trattoria Bright Steak Knife
Black Shawl Collar Cardigan
Dispatch Nº 01 · The Making Of
Casino Royale
How Bond Learned to Sit Still
The hardest thing in Casino Royale was not the crane jump or the car roll, but making a poker game feel lethal.
Martin Campbell had a table full of men in dinner jackets, a mountain of chips, and a scene he has said was “probably the most difficult” he ever had to film. Not the crane chase in Madagascar. Not the Aston Martin catastrophe at Millbrook. The card game. Texas hold ’em, ten players deep, everybody studying everybody else, with the whole movie’s pulse meant to rise and fall on glances, bets and a villain’s damaged eye. Campbell’s problem was brutally simple: poker is static until it isn’t, and Casino Royale needed it to feel like violence. So the production did something unusually sober for a Bond picture. It trained for cards.
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