More costuming love, this time focused specifically on the menswear of the film. I just want to roll around in the lushness of the detail.

(Companion post: the female TMFU wardrobe.)

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how ridiculously well dressed the TMFU characters were?

Take Napoleon. His suits are predominantly Timothy Everest. His white shirts are potentially from Zegna, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Hugo Boss,  On missions, he potentially wears Alexander McQueen and Gucci. Anachronism aside, if this were a modern day spy caper - oh my.

Illya’s staple wardrobe - let’s exclude the suits he wears as part of his cover - is no slouch either. While nowhere as fancy as Napoleon’s, those are still pretty fine classic pieces he wears in the circumstances: turtlenecks from John Smedley, jackets from Ralph Lauren and Baracuta.

I only hope that Gaby was not actually using a Hermes scarf to keep her hair back while in the chop shop. Ahahaha.

Mostly, suit lust aside, I’m also lusting over Victoria’s wardrobe. Sadly, the suggested clothing matches make me weep. I may need to whip out the trusty ol’ sewing machine.  

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OK but can we talk about something??

Remember the scene: Napoleon eats a sandwich listening to some Italian song and then saves Illya from under the water. Remember that song.

Peppino Gagliardi - Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera

I don’t know Italian but my sister’s friend translated this song for me
Here it is:

“I need this music tonight
It brings back something from the past
The Moon was our companion
I felt that you are mine
Only mine
Only mine.

I would like you to be here with me
Now, when there’s nothing between us anymore.
I would like to hear your worlds
The words that I will never hear again.

The whole world doesn’t exist anymore
Because of the happiness you gave me.
What should I do now
When you are gone?

I need this music tonight
It brings back something from the past
It brings back a bit of your love
It reminds me of you”

So this whole song is literally about love and about missing this love.
Got it?

NAPOLEON FUCKING SOLO SAVES ILLYA FUCKING KURYAKIN FROM UNDER THE WATER AFTER HE HEARD THE SONG THAT ACTUALLY TELLS HIM “YOU GONNA MISS YOUR LOVE”
SOLOYAKIN IS THE BEST OTP OH GOD IM SO FUCKING DONE

This is really quite a brilliant touch. Ahahahaha.

(Source: mydesignforbothofus)

TMFU film character profiles, compiled by a kind person on AO3. So much love for all the tiny little details. I mean, backgammon, Solo? Really? And Illya, an Oedipus complex? (Just when you think Illya’s backstory can’t get even more angsty.)

Speaking of Solo, if he was born in 1929 and joined the army in 1945, he would have been 16, not 18 (per Illya’s research), at the time of joining. Did he lie about his age when he enlisted, I wonder.