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"DRIVE"  The jacket 

Me and the beloved watched "Drive" last night. What a great film, had to hide behind the pillow a couple of times but I loved it.

 After watching the movie my beloved was intent on tracking down the scorpion jacket that Ryan Gosling wears throughout the film. So we did a bit of research and found out some great information on why and how they chose that certain jacket for the movie...

....."I'm always facing the jacket question in films. There's something about men and style and how the jacket is such a piece that they love, because it's easy and they can wear it with everything. Ryan was really inspired by these Korean souvenir jackets from the Fifties. We got to this idea of a white quilted satin jacket with a scorpion on the back. The scorpion came a little later - that was inspired by this Kenneth Anger video "Scorpio". We built the jacket from scratch. We used a tailor in Los Angeles: Richard Lim of High Society. He was really wonderful - he was able to work with the satin, and used real wool for the cuffs and the collar. We had maybe ten different styles tested: we had a baseball cut for the shoulders, then we had a regular sleeve cut. We tried so many styles to nail the one that fitted and looked the best. Then there was the whole issue of the colour. A white satin jacket set the alarm bells off for the director of photography. It's a really hard thing to light, because it can blow out every scene. So we went through many iterations of the tone to get the actual colour we used, which is almost more like silver. At one point we just thought, 'Let's go back and make it olive green or red' - but in the end we all fought for saving the white jacket because we loved so much."

GQ magazine 

An official replica of the jacket, get your fix from the US retailer Steady Clothing $160

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