Where to shop the 9 best pieces from Jenna Coleman’s epic '70s wardrobe in ‘The Serpent'
There's no doubt that the seventies provided us with one of the most original and memorable fashion eras of the twentieth century, but in a strange twist it seems the further we move away from the iconic decade the more enamoured we become with its aesthetic.
Sure, the sixties had great shift dresses, we still love an eighties padded shoulder and nineties athleisure has never felt so relevant (of course, that's largely as a result of having spent the last ten months in varying degrees of national lockdown), but right now you'd struggle to find a decade more powerfully influencing the sartorial scene than the seventies.
So it's perfect timing, therefore, for the BBC to have just released its new eight-part true crime drama, The Serpent, based primarily in Bangkok in the seventies. Taking us on a journey of glamour, seduction, and murder, it tells the story of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim) and his partner-in-crime girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (played by Jenna Coleman).
Unsurprisingly - equipped with what we've just decided is the prime aesthetic triple threat in TV; a visual feast of a backdrop courtesy of Bangkok, Paris, India and Nepal, the coolest era during which to be based, and, of course, the ever-chic Jenna Coleman - the wardrobe department stepped up.
Coleman's character is totally under Sobhraj's spell, and seemingly finds strength by channelling the stylish, confident women she observes in the pages of Paris Match and living up to the alter ego 'Monique' created for her by her sociopathic boyfriend.
And while we may not be able to - or even want to - get inside the mind of Coleman's character, we'd welcome any opportunity to get inside that wardrobe.
Tinted, oversized, square sunglasses - and glasses glasses, for that matter - punchy suits with even punchier silk shirts, flares, hair scarves, halter-necks... there's very little about Leclerc's look that we wouldn't be keen to replicate today, fifty years on from when it was set.
If you too are yearning for a little sartorial nostalgia, scroll down to snap up nine of the very best modern takes on the seventies classics...
BBC Pictures- THE TEAL SUIT
BBC Pictures- THE 70s TINTED SUNGLASSES
BBC Pictures- THE INDIGO FLARED JEANS
BBC Pictures- THE WHITE CROCHET KAFTAN
BBC Pictures- THE SPHERICAL TURQUOISE EARRINGS
BBC Pictures- THE PRINTED HAIR SCARF
BBC Pictures- THE 70s TORTOISESHELL SPECTACLES
BBC Pictures- THE PALE PINK SILK ROBE
BBC Pictures- THE PRINTED HALTER-NECK
