When it comes down to it, it’s the big screen where fashions are immortalized. Not the runway, not the street. It’s Marcello Mastroianni in that impeccable black suit in 8 1/2. It’s Richard Roundtree rocking head-to-toe leather in Shaft. As the following proves, it’s a collection of images that will never go out of style:
Three Days of the CondorDirected by Sydney Pollack
1975″He wore one outfit through the whole picture!” says Sydney Pollack, when asked about Robert Redford’s wardrobe in Condor. It may look like a simple getup, but Pollack’s brother, Bernie, a wardrober, says they created the ensemble with care to define Redford’s character, a deskbound CIA researcher in unaccustomed peril. “We wanted an intellectual East Coast thing,” Bernie says. “Some sort of jacket, a chambray shirt with a wool tie—not a silk tie but a wool tie, which gave him a bit of a rougher, kind of college-professor look.”
