Doctor Who: 10 Qualities That Made Peter Capaldi's Doctor Great
5. The Style Icon
After Peter Capaldi’s first Doctor Who costume was revealed, a poll in British newspaper The Mirror rated David Tennant as the best dressed Time Lord, with Capaldi a distant second. But really - suit and trainers? Or sandshoes as the War Doctor wryly observed? If it was a style contest, the Twelfth Doctor must surely win hands down.
Minus the frilly seventies shirts, Capaldi’s costume is closest to the debonair and dandy Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee. He is certainly dressed like he means business, with a licence to kill, even if as it turns out his weapon of choice is once again the sonic screwdriver (oh and those ‘attack eyebrows’).
Fashion designer Anna Fielding describes his outfit thus:
"It’s about being clean and well-turned out, but also quite hard.”
With his Crombie and Doc Martens the Twelfth Doctor is decked out like a seventies mod, the working class antithesis of the hippy peace and love movement. And yet instead of a skin-head he gradually sports his own Pertwee-like bouffant, perhaps reflecting the fact that his incarnation softened over time. Like most of his predecessors, the Twelfth Doctor has been highly selective about what he wears, but this time it’s a perfect match to his personality. The image driving it is that of the non-conformist, counter-cultural cynic.