Adidas Y-3 · Outerwear
James Bond in Quantum of Solace, 2008 — as worn by Daniel Craig
In Quantum of Solace’s Port-au-Prince sequence, James Bond emerges from the savage fight with Edmund Slate in Slate’s room at the Hotel Dessalines with his dark polo ripped and bloodied.
The scene — James Bond
In Quantum of Solace’s Port-au-Prince sequence, James Bond emerges from the savage fight with Edmund Slate in Slate’s room at the Hotel Dessalines with his dark polo ripped and bloodied. He goes straight to Slate’s wardrobe, pulls out the Adidas Y-3 Jacket (Style 609980), and zips it over the damaged shirt before moving back into the city. The jacket stays on through the Haiti pursuit that follows, most visibly once Bond is on the motorcycle weaving through the streets, where the sudden change of outerwear reads as a practical theft rather than any deliberate restyling.
That improvised switch is exactly why the garment matters. Louise Frogley, Quantum of Solace’s costume designer, described Bond’s wardrobe in the film as sparse and built around a restrained palette of black, white, blue, and gray, and she specifically recalled putting Daniel Craig in a Y-3 jacket for this look. In this moment, the borrowed jacket preserves Bond’s hard, controlled silhouette even after a messy hand-to-hand killing. Because it comes from Slate’s closet, it also signals Bond’s efficiency under pressure: he covers evidence, replaces what has been damaged, and keeps moving.
On screen, the jacket is framed less as a fashion reveal than as part of the chase machinery. Its short length, dark color, and clean zip-front shape register quickly against Craig’s light trousers and the dusty Haiti locations, making the torso read as compact and streamlined. In motion on the motorcycle, the jacket’s plain, technical outline helps keep Bond visually severe and purposeful.
The object
The Adidas Y-3 Jacket (Style 609980) belongs to the Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto partnership that launched in 2002 and helped define Y-3 as a fashion-sportswear label, combining Adidas technical heritage with Yamamoto’s austere, directional tailoring. Contemporary Adidas material described Y-3 as a progressive line of apparel, footwear, and accessories, and that mix of athletic function and minimalist design is exactly what makes this jacket feel so specific to the late-2000s moment in which Quantum of Solace was made. As sold at retail, Style 609980 was a short zip-front blouson with a broad shirt-style collar, welted hand pockets, button cuffs, and side hem adjusters that give it a compact motorcycle or Harrington-adjacent silhouette.
Surviving retail references and collector discussions agree on the style number and on a discreet Y-3 marking placed high on the back right shoulder, while fabric descriptions vary between technical polyester and cotton-blend constructions. On screen, the jacket reads as lean, dark, and almost logo-free, which suits the film’s harder, stripped-back wardrobe language. In Quantum of Solace, Bond takes the jacket from Edmund Slate’s wardrobe in Haiti and wears it over his torn dark polo during the chase sequence. Bond clothing references have long noted that the production altered the retail piece by hiding or removing the Y-3 logo at the back shoulder, and by folding back the collar tab, softening its branded identity for the film while preserving its sharp, utilitarian outline.
Its afterlife has been unusually strong for a relatively obscure Y-3 outerwear piece. Bond collectors have treated Style 609980 as one of the harder Daniel Craig-era casual jackets to source, with fan sites describing it as sold out soon after the film and later commanding high resale prices when examples surface. That scarcity, more than any formal reissue, is what has kept the jacket in circulation as a cult Bond garment.
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