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.