In search of Robert Redford’s most iconic jacket
© Alamy https://www.ft.com/content/3c1aaf5b-5eb6-4e82-86f9-c114f3ad48c3 The late actor’s blazer in 1975’s Three Days of the Condor is flawless. Fifty years later, it still encapsulates male elegance Charlie Teasdale Published Sep 15 2025 “If you have this, anything is possible. It’s perfect,” says the French designer Nicolas Gabard , founder of tailoring brand Husbands Paris, of the grey tweed blazer worn by Robert Redford in the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor . No one, he adds, has ever been able to replicate it. “All menswear guys, at one point, have tried to copy this jacket. Even Ralph Lauren . And no one has succeeded .” A slick, moody thriller directed by Sydney Pollack that typifies the era’s geopolitical paranoia , Three Days of the Condor , released exactly 50 years ago on 27 September 1975 , was reviewed as “good-looking and entertaining”, but ultimately “no match for stories that have appeared in your local newspaper”. Redford, though, fresh from The Sting and The...