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"  It&amp;#039;s one thing to have a $2,000 bespoke suit made for yourself and another thing to lose it the very next day. But that&amp;#039;s what happened to actress Lake Bell when Rag &amp;amp;amp; Bone designers Marcus Wainwright and David Neville fitted her for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute&amp;#039;s gala in New York last year. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t lose it,&amp;quot; protests the 31-year-old Bell, who, before playing a ballbuster in It&amp;#039;s Complicated, was best known for presiding over a laugh riot as Cameron Diaz&amp;#039;s girlfriend in What Happens in Vegas. Later this year, Bell is slated to star as the ghost of a crime-solving cellist, opposite Josh Lucas&amp;#039; detective, in Little Murder, a thriller set in post\u2013Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. She&amp;#039;ll also do a turn as the cohostess of an orgy in a comic indie called A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy and star opposite Zoe Saldana and Shannon Doherty in Christopher B. Landon&amp;#039;s dramedy Burning Palms.  But right now, it&amp;#039;s all about the suit. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t know they were giving it to me,&amp;quot; she says, before the trio fall into a Three Stooges recounting of the case of the missing suit. &amp;quot;I thought they needed it back for their archives, so I returned it the next day.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It never arrived,&amp;quot; Wainwright says, with a sympathy shrug from Neville. So where is it? More shrugs. &amp;quot;No one knows,&amp;quot; Neville says. &amp;quot;They called me this morning and said, `Hey, by the way, can you bring the suit for the ELLE shoot?&amp;#039; And I was like, `What suit?&amp;#039;\u2009&amp;quot; adds Bell, who studied drama in London and can hold her own against any wry Brit. &amp;quot;We said, `The one we made you for the Met,&amp;#039;\u2009&amp;quot; Wainwright deadpans. &amp;quot;I swear I sent it back!&amp;quot; Bell cries. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not like I left it in the back of a cab like in that Jackie Chan movie.&amp;quot; Today, she&amp;#039;s wearing a black, notch-lapel, wool two-piece, but I must admit that I&amp;#039;m having a hard time focusing on its finer points. Faced with Bell&amp;#039;s killer curves and lean legs, all I can think about are my own genetic failings, while recognizing that, oh yeah, this is what a perfect body looks like with or without the custom benefits. Girl that I am, though, I&amp;#039;m equally preoccupied with ogling the lean, aristocratic physiques of Wainwright, 35, and Neville, 33. Their accents are beguiling, their gestures charming, and then there is their languidly disheveled attire\u2014fabrics worn-in just so, silhouettes rumpled in all the right places. They have so perfected a style of cool chic, it&amp;#039;s no wonder celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, and Cate Blanchett are fans. &amp;quot;We come to fashion from an interesting perspective since neither of us has formal training,&amp;quot; says Neville, who, prior to partnering with Wainwright, was an investment banker. Wainwright worked in telecommunications. The two have been fast friends since attending boarding school together outside London. Wainwright and Neville launched their denim line, Rag &amp;amp;amp; Bone, named after London&amp;#039;s nineteenth-century scrap collectors, in 2002. It was an overnight success, and in spring 2004 they followed up with a full collection of menswear, then women&amp;#039;s in fall 2005. Their idea was to make clothes their friends would want to wear every day\u2014unisex pants, jackets, vests, and shirts that are a classic take on Victorian tailoring, with a little sexy sportswear thrown in. Add to that an accessories line, a West Village flagship where the clothes hang in a dark industrial space among a hodgepodge of antiquities and other cool finds, a SoHo store on Mercer Street that opened this past fall, and you could say these two are on a roll. Now they are launching a custom-order suit-making business for both men and women, offering three styles\u2014tuxedo, peaked lapel, and notched\u2014in classic colors such as white, navy, and black.  &amp;quot;Maybe it&amp;#039;s because we&amp;#039;re so English,&amp;quot; Wainwright says, &amp;quot;but we really appreciate the art and craftsmanship of Savile Row\u2013style tailoring. It seemed like the perfect next step.&amp;quot; Their search for a bespoke tailor led them to the Martin Greenfield Clothiers in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. &amp;quot;We work with two guys named Rocco and Mario. They are true characters,&amp;quot; says Neville, who is married to makeup artist and Revlon Brand Global Artistic Advisor Gucci Westman and has two young children. &amp;quot;It took more than 100 people and 108 steps to make Lake&amp;#039;s suit,&amp;quot; adds Wainwright, who&amp;#039;s also married and the father of two little boys. &amp;quot;We even made her a chest float.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It was impeccable,&amp;quot; Bell enthused. &amp;quot;It felt modern and looked sharp. I love that look on a woman.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;What look is that?&amp;quot; Wainwright asks. &amp;quot;What I&amp;#039;m saying is, I&amp;#039;m a cross-dresser,&amp;quot; Bell says, not missing a beat. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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