My quest for Robert Redford’s jacket

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“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…