Sloop

Name: Massimo Alba Sloop
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James Bond in No Time to Die, 2021 — as worn by Daniel Craig

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The scene

In No Time to Die’s opening Matera sequence, James Bond leaves the hotel alone and climbs to the hillside cemetery to visit Vesper Lynd’s grave, dressed in the sand-toned Massimo Alba Sloop suit. The setting is the ancient burial ground above the stone city, flooded with southern Italian sun. Bond moves along the narrow paths to Vesper’s tomb, stops before the inscription, and burns a note there, turning the visit into a solitary ritual before the film’s pre-title calm gives way to violence and pursuit through Matera.

The suit sharpens that emotional pivot because it is still recognizably a suit, yet far removed from Bond’s usual hard-edged tailoring. Coverage of the costume identifies the Sloop as a tan or desert corduroy design, and commentators on the film’s wardrobe have noted how Suttirat Anne Larlarb reworked Bond’s familiar uniform in No Time to Die to reflect a man who has left service behind. In this moment, the softer, unstructured look reads as mourning clothes for a retired Bond: composed enough for a graveside visit, but relaxed enough to expose his vulnerability and the unresolved hold of Vesper’s memory.

On screen, the fine corduroy wale catches the bright light with unusual clarity, giving the suit visible texture against Matera’s pale stone and dusty earth. Its sandy tone sits almost inside the landscape rather than standing apart from it. The camera frames Bond as a lone figure in open daylight, and that subdued, sunlit intimacy makes the suit part of the scene’s hush just before the explosion tears it apart.

In No Time to Die’s opening Matera sequence, James Bond leaves the hotel alone and climbs to the hillside cemetery to visit Vesper Lynd’s grave, dressed in the sand-toned Massimo Alba Sloop suit.

The object

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The Massimo Alba Sloop is a soft, unstructured Italian two-piece suit from the Milan label founded by Massimo Alba in 2006. For No Time to Die, the on-screen version worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond is identified as the Sloop in the Desert colorway, rendered in a fine cotton needlecord or baby corduroy that gives the suit a dry, lightweight texture suited to warm-weather wear.

The jacket is a regular-fit, single-breasted design with a three-roll-two fastening, soft natural shoulders, notch lapels, straight flap pockets, a ticket pocket, double back vents, partial lining, and four dark horn buttons at each cuff. The matching trousers are flat-front with a straight leg and belt loops, though Bond wears them with braces in the film.

The suit’s relaxed construction marks a deliberate departure from Bond’s usual crisp, businesslike tailoring, aligning instead with the character’s retired, off-duty state in Matera while still maintaining understated elegance appropriate to the graveyard scene. Contemporary product coverage and Bond costume sources consistently identify the model as the Massimo Alba Sloop in Desert, and the Sloop remains an active model in Massimo Alba’s current line even if the exact film fabric/color variant is not always available at retail.

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