Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. ‘I wanted his character to look as if he were interested in clothes and had recently bought a fashionable suit,’ says costume designer Jacqueline Durran.
Tom Hardy, who plays field agent Ricki Tarr, has the most interesting wardrobe. In the novel the character is Australian, which encouraged Durran to give him a more expressive style: “He is out shooting people, so we wanted him to be this manly action person. The first person we turned to was Steve McQueen.” Inspired by the classic photographs of the Hollywood star taken in the early 1960s by William Claxton, Durran put Hardy in “really straight cord trousers, preppy shirts, simple white short-sleeved T-shirts” and a classic Harrington jacket.
