11 Alt Bond Girls Who Kill It With Their Buttoned-Up Bombshell Style Inline
Photo: Everett Collection1/22Grace Jones was a leather-bound dynamo as 1985’s A View to a Kill’s May Day, bringing her own brand of gender-bending panache and flair to the role and costumes of the would-be assassin.
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Photo: Everett Collection3/22Playing the ultimate tomboy as Pam Bouvier in License to Kill (1989), Carey Lowell traded in her former army pilot’s combat uniform for a rhinestone-clad ball gown, but never lost that saucy pixie or attitude that won her Bond’s heart.
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Photo: Everett Collection5/22It was the Prada little black dress that Olga Kurylenko’s Camille Montes slips into to fight off her sworn enemies in Quantum of Solace (2008) that first caught our eye. But it was her raw determination to exact revenge on the killers who took out her family that held our (and Bond’s) attention.
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Photo: Courtesy of Eon Productions7/22Hopping from cool sportswear to edgy leather jumpsuits to a glitzy ball gown all while taking down foes left and right, Michelle Yeoh’s Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) heroine, Wai Lin, quickly became heralded as one of the best Bond leading ladies of all time.
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Photo: Getty Images9/22Suited up in a bright yellow maritime ensemble, Carole Bouquet’s Melina Havelock was hard to ignore or resist, as 007 soon learned in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
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Photo: Courtesy of Eon Productions11/22Naomie Harris, a style star in her own right, breathes new life into Eve Moneypenny, turning the staid, secretarial attire of her Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015) character into a smoldering point of Bond’s attraction with her bold color scheme.
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Photo: Everett Collection13/22Bond falls quickly and hard in Casino Royale (2006) for Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd, and how could he not? With her wit, intelligence, dark looks, and polished suiting, she’s a match for our harrowing spy and turns our titular hero into an emotional creature.
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Photo: Courtesy of Eon Pictures15/22Lois Maxwell’s Moneypenny—the O.G. Bond leading lady—is a merciless flirt and a constant companion of Bond’s, but would you ever know it with those straitlaced strands of pearls and pussy-bow collar?
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Photo: Courtesy of Eon Pictures17/22While Bond fawns over the obvious beauty and talent of Kara Milovy, Soviet cellist extraordinaire in The Living Daylights (1987), it’s the geek-chic turtleneck that Maryam d’Abo makes her own that we can’t stop gawking at.
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Photo: Courtesy of Eon Pictures19/22True, Gloria Hendry’s Rosie Carver wore little else than the standard (yet groovy) barely there two-piece throughout Live and Let Die (1973), but as Bond’s first black love interest, she was certainly unlike any Bond leading lady before her.
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Photo: Courtesy of Eon Pictures21/22As the head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Judi Dench’s M means business, hence the tweed suiting. But it’s her soft spot for James Bond that makes her the spy’s ultimate leading lady.
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