Peter Jensen (fashion designer)

Peter Jensen
Nationality	Danish
Occupation	Fashion designer

Peter Jensen (born 1969, Løgstør, Denmark) is a Danish-born, London-based mens and womenswear designer.

Jensen initially studied graphic design, embroidery and tailoring at The Royal Danish Academy of Design in Copenhagen before moving to London in 1997 to undertake an MA in menswear at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He graduated with a distinction in 1999 and formed his eponymous menswear label immediately afterwards, subsequently also introducing womenswear. Jensen has regularly shown his collections on the main schedule at London Fashion Week, upon the catwalk and in the form of installations, in a variety of venues. These venues range from Milk Studios New York (2011), ICA Institute for Contemporary Art London (2010), Radiohuset Copenhagen (2008), Queens Ice Bowl London (2005) and Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt Paris (2001). Jensen's designs are stocked in a variety of prestigious stores and boutiques in over twenty countries on five continents. These include Colette in Paris, 10 Corso Como in Milan, Opening Ceremony in L.A, Tokyo and New York, B-store and Dover Street Market in London, Side by Side in Tokyo, and UK Style in Moscow.

Jensen and his design team work in a studio based in Dalston, East London. The designer lives with his long-term partner in Primrose Hill, in North London, in an apartment full of classic Scandinavian furniture, as well as his extensive collections of cushions and books.

Jensen's designs are known for being inventive, playful, colourful and well-made. In terms of inspiration, his work is characterised by a unique mixture of popular culture references and often makes reference to infamous or cult figures. Jensen's women's wear collections are consistently inspired by and named after a female Muse - though Jensen avoids obvious style icons, instead homing-in on popular culture's more marginal or complex females, who are as likely to be eccentric, wanton or even criminal, as they are heroic or overtly chic. As the designer has confirmed, I like to base my collections on strong-headed women. (The Independent).

His muses have so far included, among others, 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, disgraced 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, an ardent lover of fashion in the 1970s who ran a chip shop and taxi company in Nuuk, Greenland.

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