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‘Designing 007’ exhibit comes to Toronto

James Bond fans in Toronto are in for a real treat. The TIFF Bell Lightbox’s Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style exhibit opened last week and will be open to the public until January 20, 2013. The gallery comes just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bond film franchise and TIFF teamed up with the Barbican Centre in London, England to bring the Designing 007 exhibit overseas. Barbican is the largest performing arts center in Europe and with their help, TIFF’s Bond-themed gallery will be in full swing for the North American release of the 23rd installment, Skyfall, on November 12.

The exhibit showcases a huge collection of authentic costumes, sets and props that have defined the suave M16 agent over the decades and commemorates the 50 years of skill, imagination and ambition of the many designers who helped to create Bond’s iconic style. Played by six different actors over the course of five decades, Bond is the longest-running film franchise of all time and this exhibit also aims to explore the creative processes involved in producing the influential series. Check out the gallery below to see some of the unique exhibits, original artwork and props straight from the big screen.

: Bomb and Continuity book – Diamonds are Forever

: Wardrobe

: Wardrobe

: Wardrobe

: Wardrobe

: Wardrobe from Quantum of Solace

: Villain wardrobe and props – Licence to Kill

: Verity’s costume- Die Another Day

: Sourbugs from Thunderball, Automated targeting attack communicator from For Your Eyes Only, Explosive box dummy from The Living Daylights

: Solitaire’s wardrobe – Live and Let Die

: Solitaire’s table – Live and Let Die

: San Monique’s flag, Voodoo flag – Live and Let Die

: Russian tank model – Goldeneye

: Russian plane sequences storyboard – The Living Daylights

: Roger Moore’s safari jacket – Octopussy

: Raoul Silva’s Dead City suit, Severine’s dress – Skyfall

: Q’s mug, dongle, ID, eyeglasses and Bond’s new weapon – Skyfall

: Q’s leg cast – Goldeneye

: Q’s Bag of tricks with cigarette packet detonator and laser camera – Licence to Kill

: Q Branch, VR glasses, Bond Samsonite briefcase with diamonds, C4 explosives – Die Another Day

: Pussy Galore’s golden waistcoat – Goldfinger

: Piton laser gun, belt, sketch and concept – Goldeneye

: Piton gun – Goldfinger

: Pierce Brosnan’s tank costume – Goldeneye

: Pierce Brosnan’s Bond passport

: Nick Nack bust from The Man with the Golden Gun, Elektra King ear cast from The World is Not Enough

: M’s cabin on the Queen Elizabeth – The Man with the Golden Gun

: Motorbike and banner sequence storyboard – Tomorrow Never Dies

: Miniature Drax, astronauts, space shuttle, laser gun and space marine prototype with case – MoonRaker

: May Day costume – A View to A Kill

: Maquette of Carver’s Tower in Beijing – Tomorrow Never Dies

: Major Anya Amasova’s dress and Bon’s outfit – The Spy Who Loved Me

: Lotus Esprit S1 ‘Wet Nellie’ model – The Spy Who Loved Me

: Interior of the sinking Palazzo – Casino Royale

: Inside MI6 – The World is not Enough

: Hasselblad gun – Licence to Kill

: Encryptor – Casino Royale

: Designing 007

: Costume concepts – The Spy Who Loved Me

: Bond’s cellphone – Quantum of Solace

: Bond memorabilia

: Bond and Kara in Jeep model – The Living Daylights

: Auric Goldfinger’s golden dinner jacket – Goldfinger

: Astronaut costume – Moonraker

: Wardrobe

: Q boat – The World is Not Enough

: Poker table – Casino Royale

: Lotus model road version – The Spy Who Loved Me

: Gold-plated typewriter used by Ian Flemming to write Casino Royale

: Goldfinger replica

: First-edition hardback books

: Wardrobe

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