Giubbino Jacket

James Bond arrives in Matera with Madeleine Swann in the Aston Martin DB5 during the film’s pre-title Italian passage, and the Connolly Giubbino is worn as they move on foot through the old stone streets toward the hotel identified in the story as Palazzo Lucareschi. This is the brief lull before Bond’s visit to Vesper Lynd’s grave detonates the sequence into violence: in these walking shots, he is beside Madeleine rather than on assignment, and the jacket belongs to that interval of apparent privacy, travel, and suspended danger.

The location work in Matera’s lanes and along Via Muro gives the moment its sense of age and intimacy, with Bond and Madeleine framed as a couple temporarily at ease in a city of pale rock and steep passages. The Giubbino helps mark how far this Bond has stepped away from his formal operational uniform. Costume commentary around No Time to Die notes that Suttirat Anne Larlarb pushed Bond’s wardrobe in Matera toward a dressed-down, fashion-led silhouette, and detailed wardrobe analysis identifies this piece as a dark blue linen-cotton shirt-jacket paired with an off-white henley and needlecord trousers.

In that context, the Connolly outerwear reads as deliberate softness: less armored, less ceremonial, and more companionable. On screen, the jacket is worn open at the neck with an easy, lightly bloused shape through the hem, so it moves more like leisurewear than tailoring. Its deep navy registers cleanly against Matera’s chalky stone, while the daylight photography keeps the look crisp and unforced, emphasizing Bond’s calm presence before the ambush resets the tone.

The object

Connolly is a British leather and clothing house founded in 1878, historically associated with motoring through its supply of luxury leather to major car makers, including Aston Martin. For No Time to Die, the company released an officially licensed 007 x Connolly capsule and identified the Giubbino as one of the collection’s key Bond pieces, directly linking it to Bond’s Matera wardrobe.

The Giubbino is Connolly’s interpretation of a 1950s lightweight bomber jacket, made in Italy from a breathable 59% linen and 41% cotton mixed-linen cloth. The screen-matched version is the lightweight navy fabric model rather than the later suede lambskin edition. It has an unstructured, unlined construction with a short blouson length, a one-piece notch collar, four black horn buttons at the front, two large patch waist pockets with pointed flaps and inverted box pleats, and a functional drawstring hem that can be cinched to shape the waist.

In the film, Daniel Craig wears this navy Giubbino in the early Matera scenes with Madeleine Swann, where its soft structure and warm-weather fabrication support the relaxed, refined travel aesthetic of Bond’s romantic Italian interlude. As a documented part of Connolly’s Bond-related capsule, the jacket also nods to the brand’s historic relationship with the Aston Martin DB5.