Peter Jensen (fashion designer)

His muses have included Hollywood actress Mary Miles Minter, American photographer Tina Barney, the character Candice Marie from the Mike Leigh film, Nuts In May, Carrie-era Sissy Spacek, Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding, John Waters' actress Mink Stole, the legendary Helena Rubinstein, collector and more Gertrude Stein, artist Cindy Sherman, singer Nina Simone and even Jensen's own Auntie Jytte, who ran a chip shop and taxi company in Nuuk, Greenland, Art collector Peggy Guggenheim and Actress Shelley Duvall amongst others.

Jensen has consistently received considerable industry support from many of the most respected international fashion critics, editors and writers: Harriet Quick, British Vogue: Cleverly conceived, quirkily humorous clothes.... both distinctive and of the moment.

(www.style.com) Women's Wear Daily: A breath of fresh air... Jensen offers the cool basics that every girl should have in her wardrobe.

(www.wwd.com) James Anderson, ponystep.com In the case of his womenswear, specifically, the stylistic inspiration he has routinely drawn from infamous female spirits such as actress Sissy Spacek, artist Cindy Sherman or disgraced Olympic ice skater Tanya Harding, for example, have always ensured that both the reference points and overall results are appealingly left-of-centre yet always wearable.

(www.ponystep.com) Tim Blanks, BOF: The challenge of how best to show their clothes is inspiring more and more designers to spectacularly creative flights of fancy.

Peter Jensen's collaboration with the American artist Laurie Simmons produced one of the most enjoyably bizarre—and bizarrely complex—presentations to date.

(www.independent.co.uk) Famous fans of Jensen's designs include pop stars Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, Nina Persson from The Cardigans, Kanye West and The Zutons’ Abi Harding.

High-profile actresses among his customer base include Rachel Bilson, Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Lena Dunham, Dakota Fanning, Sofie Gråbøl, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nicole Kidman and Lindsay Lohan.

A Geological Study of' Pictures by Dante Fewster Holdsworth, short story by Peter Jensen 'Handle with care' an art project with Julie Verhoeven, build on illustrations and broken china.

An art exhibition, Supported by Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark Road trip exhibition hold in Copenhagen, London and Los Angeles Pyjamas capsule collection for Juna Rosendahl Design Group, Copenhagen Donated Peter Jensen archive work from 2001–2018 to the following: V&A in London Design Museum Denmark in Copenhagen Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester Central Saint Martins in London The John Waters archive in Baltimore Fashion Museum, Bath, England National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen Greenland National Museum Nuuk, Greenland.

Solo presentation at the Victoria & Albert Museum London as part of the programme Fashion in Motion 18 November 2011.

Group exhibition Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of Contemporary Fashion (with among others Vivienne Westwood and Hussein Chalayan) arranged by The British Council and touring in Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh (2011).

Online project 9 September 2010 to 30 October 2010, In Wolves Clothing Re-imagining the Doll together with visual artist Laurie Simmons.

'The party' a one night exhibition in Copenhagen with performance by Nina Persson and Nathan Larson performing the soundtrack from the AW10/11 collection, this time in German, 2018 'Annie & Peter-A road trip, from Copenhagen to Løgstør' which was a solo exhibition in Copenhagen October/November 2018 with photographer Annie Collinge, 2020 published book with photographer Dante Fewster Holdsworth 'Oh Dear -A typology of drainpipes' Short story by Jensen, 2023 published book with photographer Dante Fewster Holdsworth Fake rocks — Friends?

SS 2004 'Gertrude' - Gertrude Stein, a rich and influential American art collector who lived in Paris, died in 1946.

SS 2005 'Tonya' - Tonya Harding, the American ice-skater, famous for an attack on rival ice skater Nancy Kerrigan in 1994.

SS 2006 'Sissy' - Sissy Spacek is an American actress, famous for her roles in the films Badlands (1973), Carrie (1976) and Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).

AW 10-11 'Muriel' - Dame Muriel Spark is a Scottish novelist, most famous for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

AW 11-12 'Anna-Karina' - Anna Karina (Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer) born in Denmark, but found fame as a French actress in Jean-Luc Godard films.

AW 12-13 'Thelma' - Thelma Speirs has been part of the London club scene since the 1980s, she is also one half of the hat company Bernstock-Speirs.

Resort 2013 'Tippi' - Tippi Hedren is famous for playing the lead in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie.

Pre-fall 15 'Penelope' - Penelope Tree became famous for wearing a very sexy Betsey Johnson-dress to the Thurman Carpote Black and White Ball in 1966.

Resort 16 'Enid' - Enid is the main character in the comic book Ghostworld, which was made into a cult film in 2001 starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson.

Items from over the last 10 years, including drawings of all the past muses by English artist Julie Verhoeven.