We suggest just visiting Steady Clothing and contacting them if you have any more questions. Other than that, there's not much more, but this looks about as accurate as you'll get without paying even more for a prop replica (or a costume department original).
The scorpion is embroidered directly on the jacket and is not available for sale separately as a patch. Here are additional details: Even at $160, the jacket won't be shipping until mid-November, so you won't get it in time for your Halloween costume (this year). Looks pretty good, I'm actually considering getting one, though I don't think I can drive as well as Gosling (in the movie). For more info, a few photos, and to pre-order one of these, click anywhere below:
The only downside is that it costs $160, even to pre-order, but if you're a die-hard Drive fan or wannabe getaway driver who has been planning to dress up and drive around Los Angeles looking like Gosling, cost shouldn't be a concern. I was sent a link this morning directly to vintage clothing shop Steady Clothing Inc's new web page for the scorpion Drive jacket, which looks to be a complete and accurate recreation of the jacket from the film.
While I expect some to make their own for Halloween, a clothing shop is making an official version (as far as we can tell) of the jacket, and pre-orders have already started for the first batch. It's a vital part of his character's identity. In addition to his leather gloves, I instantly knew there was one item that could transcend the film - that kick ass scorpion jacket that Ryan Gosling wears.
When I first saw Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive in Cannes back in May, one of the first thoughts in my mind was that I hope this movie becomes a cult sensation, and goes so far as to break into mainstream pop culture. Drive is indeed a film that, in every aspect of its making, shows respect to craft.Wear the jacket. 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. 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.
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).