Designer Rebecca Turbow and photographer Tom Hines have done it again: collaborating this year in a  photo shoot for Turbow’s spring 2010 collection with a dry 1960s spy vibe. The black and white shots read like vintage stills of The Avengers or The Man from U.N.C.L.E (the spy organization hidden behind a tailor shop), complete with high hemlines, private-eye props and grungy Brooklyn backdrops reminiscent of  Serpico. Turbow’s retro-inspired collection of soft grays and pale pinks can be seen tomorrow night from 7-9pm at Collective Hardware (169 Bowery) with music by Of Montreal‘s Kevin Barnes, who’s worn Turbow’s ensembles on stage for years.  Click “Read More” for more images and the flyer with RSVP info.

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Brooklyn-based fashion designer Rebecca Turbow, of “Safe Clothes,” has been promoting safety-through-consistency for years. The former Turquoise Queen (she infamously wore teal and white for seven years straight) converted her wardrobe and clothing line to gray in September of ‘07, and this winter’s collection is no exception. Swing coats, mini-dresses and pleated skirts — the line is nostalgic for more optimistic times in American history, when people wore knee socks and Sloan Wilson wrote “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.” But while Wilson was criticizing social uniformity, Turbow is celebrating the balance and compromise of the gray palette. And while it might be obsessive to wear the same color every day, there is something oddly comforting in knowing that if you bump into Rebecca, she will be wearing gray.

Photos courtesy of Tom Hines.