GQ names Sean Connery one of the most stylish men in 50 years
GQ magazine has named the original James Bond, Sean Connery, one of the '50 Most Stylish Men of the Past 50 Years.'
All the actors whoâve inhabited the role of James Bond have enjoyed the trappings of styleâkilling bad guys in Savile Row bespokeâbut only one of them can truly be said to have style. (And no, weâre not talking about George Lazenby.) Sean Connery is still the yardstick by which all other Bonds are measuredâthe arched eyebrow, the dry wolfish smile.
But we at GQ think it mostly has to do with the way he moved. It only looked effortless: Before he was cast in Dr. No, Connery was an ardent student of the Swedish movement teacher Yat Malmgren, whose book on body technique became Conneryâs bible. Thatâs how the former bricklayer from a hardscrabble section of Edinburgh learned to walk with (in one observerâs memorable phrase) âthe threatening grace of a panther on the prowl.â Read it as a gloss on his penchant for violence or his sexual prowess: It works both ways.
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