Alexis Colby, Brenda Walsh, Serena van der Woodsen, Carrie Bradshaw … every decade has its TV characters that became fashion icons while defining trends for their generation.

Here’s a list of some of our current favourites.

Villanelle (Jodie Comer) Killing Eve

Renata Klein (Laura Dern) Big Little Lies

Much like her personality, her super polished style is driven by wealth and power – cue razor-cut suits and body conscious separates from big-ticket designers like Alaïa, Gucci, Chanel and Balmain (the crocodile blazer she wore in a recent episode is almost as fierce as she is). If we had to pick one outfit to sum her up, then it’s the shiny red dress and gold belt that made her look like a modern-day Wonder Woman. You can never underestimate the power of a good jacket.

Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) Empire

When Empire first started in 2015 it had so much going for it – a great soundtrack, talented cast and of course Cookie Lyon’s outfits. The show’s main protagonist is fierce – a point driven home in the first episode, where she wore animal prints in almost every scene.

Since then she has pushed boundaries with her maximalist, no-holds-barred style, which includes pieces from the likes of Fendi and Chanel to high street labels which she throws together with plenty of attitude. Her look is loud and in your face – plenty of bling, fur and flashy heels. One day she can be channelling Jackie O, and on the next she is ghetto fabulous. Anyone who dresses like that in real life would be considered crass or tacky, but on Cookie it just works.

Elektra Abundance (Dominique Jackson) Pose

Pose centres around the LGBT underground ballroom scene in New York in the 1980s. As such, the outfits are way more fabulous than a scene out of RuPaul’s Drag Race and run the gamut from vintage pieces to full-blown costumes.

While it’s hard to pick a favourite, the sartorial choices of house leader Elektra encapsulate the theatre, fantasy and excess of the period. Her looks range from Crystal Carrington-style power suits and head-to-toe fur to gold jackets, chain belts and sparkling evening wear that is perfect to sashay or vogue in. She’s never without some sort of fabulous headwear, be it a turban or a tiara. She is a queen, after all.

If you are a lover of vintage fashion, then Midge Maisel’s wardrobe is a dream come true. The award-winning show centres around a housewife from New York’s Upper West Side who reinvents herself as a comedian. Her new career, however, doesn’t mean that she’s any less glamorous.

Midge’s style speaks to the elegance of an era, the 1950s, when women had everything in their wardrobe custom made – beautifully tailored pieces, free from the modern trappings of designer branded fashion.