Everyone was wearing these loose clothes that were really for dancing in... When Trainspotting came along, people were ready for a new silhouette” – Rachael Fleming Rachael Fleming: I’d been working on music videos with Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis for a long time, but as this point, I was working on the costumes for a film called Go Now with Michael Winterbottom, which Bobby (Robert Carlyle) was starring in. I remember Bobby went off to meet Danny about his new project and I think he mentioned my name to him there and then. Danny had actually seen a film I’d worked on with Michael previously, Butterfly Kiss, and got in touch about Trainspotting. Really it went from there. I’ve actually worked quite a few times with both Danny and Bobby – on 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, as well as The Beach, which Bobby made a brief appearance in. You’ve mentioned previously that all the clothes in the first film were bought second-hand or handmade by you. Where would the characters shop now? How did the way you dressed the characters in T2 differ from the way you dressed them in the original – did you find it difficult to reimagine their style? Rachael Fleming: I think it’s testament to the first film in that they were great, even the ones you might not have expected to be. Burberry, Armani and Mulberry were all brilliant, and Pringle was particularly amazing; they made me nine of the pink sweaters that Begbie wears in T2 for a scene in which he gets covered in blood. It was actually an exact copy of one that he wears in Trainspotting – although adjusted slightly to reflect his body shape after 20 years inside. Unlike Ewen (Bremner), he had filled out a bit!

How did the luxury brands you chose to use react when they found out the context in which their clothes would be used (to dress a group of heroin addicts)?