I am satisfied with the item received and would highly recommend it. The scorpion at the back looks very stylish and I am its big fan. When I wore it, I felt like the size is just ideal for me.
The touch of the jacket was silky soft and the knitting of it was a bit snuggy and durable. When the parcel arrive and when I unzipped the bag, I was amazed seeing it. Usually students do not have much bucks to spend on flashy leather jackets, so I got myself this drive jacket made of satin from your store. Hi this is Erick and I am a student in USA. Stylish, comfy & most importently in budget This is Rudy & I'm from the United States and not only did I get my jacket super quick but it was beyond of what I expected. This jacket is adorned with the presence of golden Scorpion embroidery at the back put spotlight over your individuality. The stitching of this Drive Jacket with Scorpion is extremely neat and it has been done assuring its good-life for a long period of time. The Ryan Gosling Jacket has knitted folding collar, knitted cuffs hem and knitted waist-hem, all blossomed in contrasting brown color. It is lined with quality Polyester lining, which makes you feel extremely cozy and comfy. It comes in Ivory white color offering this jacket an appealing appearance. The Jacket from Drive with Scorpion is made up of Satin fabric having broad diamond-shaped stitching detail all over it. It is the most precise reproduction of the Drive Jacket put on by Ryan Gosling in Hollywood blockbuster - Drive (2011). Pockets: Two welt pockets at the front, two inside pockets.Back Design: Golden scorpion embroidery at the back.
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Drive is indeed a film that, in every aspect of its making, shows respect to craft. A tribute to a time of avant garde filmmaking. The director and his lead actor both had their say in choosing the scorpion logo, too, which is a reference to one of the first music videos ever made by Kenneth Anger called Scorpio Rising. Which was down to the wire - about an hour before shooting!” We went through 15 or 20 iterations until we got it right. We knew the collar had to be able to pop up, we wanted the knit around the wrists and waist to be 100 percent wool as opposed to stretchy nylon.
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We felt like Driver was really buttoned-up, clean and streamlined. But the style and shape of them was definitely very fifties and slouchy. “So we started to think, wow, that might be really cool. “ had bought one on his own and was wearing it around”, said Erin Benach. The idea for this particular type of jacket apparently originated in 1950s Korean souvenir jackets. “Good actors find their own costumes, so Ryan found a type of jacket that he really liked,” the director told IFC. Nicolas Refn wanted Gosling to wear a white satin jacket that would illuminate him at night, inspired by “listening to Kiss’s ‘I Was Made For Loving You’ like 1,000 times over and over again in a car,” said Refn in an NPR interview. The jacket itself was a custom design made specially for the film, and which took months for Los Angeles based tailor Richard Lim and costume designer Erin Benach (who also worked for Half Nelson, Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, all starring Gosling) to perfect. The ever-present satin bomber jacket becomes his armour, part of a ritual he alone has established for himself.įilm costume, once again, helped shape the character and the image of the movie. It is what it is because it belonged in the movie, and on Ryan Gosling’s character in the movie. On anyone else, mere mortals in real life, it wouldn’t. On him, a character of no place, no family, no history, no name, it has a place and purpose.
Why “otherworldly”? Because, unlike many other film costumes that are meant to be copied for decades to come and even become the voice of a generation, this one is meant only to be noticed and rememebered. But unlike Delon’s Jef Costello, who won’t let anything distract him from his own path, Gosling’s Driver gambles with love, too. They both even gamble with their own lives.
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Both characters abide by a certain code of conduct, leading a solitary existence. Gosling is silent, stoic, mysterious, a loner, referencing Alain Delon’s disciplined isolation in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï (he kills for hire). He is a part-time mechanic and Hollywood stunt racer who moonlights as a getaway wheel man. Drive is wild and damn good.ĭriver drives for hire. With uncanny skill, in league with cameraman Newton Thomas Sigel and composer Cliff Martinez, Refn blends tough and tender, violence and beauty. Gosling is Driver in Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 American debut film. After all the singing and dancing in La La Land, here is a little reminder that he can do tough, too (but then again, he can take on any role).