By Liz Jones For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:01 BST, 8 June 2019 | Updated: 23:41 BST, 8 June 2019
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Not since Sex And The City has what a woman wears been so integral to not just how a TV series looks or to the plot, but to a character’s very soul.
Take resident psychopath Villanelle, inhabited like a catwalk model by Jodie Comer. Not for her the anonymous balaclava donned by Jamie Dornan in The Fall. Nor even Uma Thurman’s practical cat suit in Kill Bill.
This woman is so brazen, she wants to stand out. The inspired costumes in series one, dreamed up by Bafta-winning designer Phoebe de Gaye, were chosen to illustrate that millennial women have no need to dress like men to show they are not to be messed with.
Not since Sex And The City has what a woman wears been so integral to not just how a TV series looks or to the plot, but to a character’s very soul
In contrast to Sandra Oh’s character Eve, and Fiona Shaw’s Carolyn, who want everyone to forget they own a womb and therefore dress in slurries (Carolyn isn’t even given a handbag, merely pockets), when Villanelle rocks up to an important assessment of her sanity, she has the balls to wear a pink baby doll dress by London designer Molly Goddard, with bovver boots! Mad!
Comer even rocked a prison-issue headscarf as if it were Givenchy.
In contrast to Sandra Oh’s character Eve, and Fiona Shaw’s
