THE M&S ASSASSIN

HERE Villanelle is working undercover as a security guard for a bank. She is ‘playing a character for a kill’, says Mitchell.

Paid handsomely by the mysterious ‘Twelve’ who order her killings, Villanelle can afford haute couture, but when on a job she must fit into her environment.

And so Mitchell found this ‘fantastic doublebreasted jacket and slim fitted trousers from Marks and Spencer that suited Jodie perfectly’.

It won’t be the last suit she’ll be seen in — another is to come at the end of this series, Mitchell confides. It was inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s Eighties style, with a ‘strong silhouette and big shoulder pads’.

‘I can’t tell you what happens, but it has to be an iconic Villanelle moment,’ Mitchell adds. ‘Simple, stripped back, quite masculine.’