>Peter Jensen

Fashion Designer

Peter Jensen is a Danish born, London-based designer. He has trained in various fields, including embroidery and graphic design, and graduated from Central St Martin's in Fashion Design Menswear in 1999. Two years later, following the success of his distinctive menswear collections in Paris, Jensen moved into womenswear design. His work has alluded to themes of class-consciousness in referencing the work of British film directors of 'bleak humanism' Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. His feminine, understated collections are named after both historical and fictional women such as British actresses 'Alison' (Steadman) and 'Brenda' (Blethen), the Mitford sisters ('Nancy'), the avant-garde lesbian heiress Gertrude Stein, the artist Cindy Sherman, ‘Fanny’ (from Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Fanny and Alexander’) and perhaps the most spectacular presentation being his show held at an ice-rink, in honour of the disgraced Olympic ice-skater Tonya Harding. Jensen won the British Fashion Council 'New Generation' sponsorship for Spring/Summer 2004, and has continued to design and show menswear and womenswear simultaneously in London.

Peter Jensen is represented by Cube +44 (0) 207 242 5483