ESCAPE INTO ANOTHER WORLD: PETER JENSEN S/S 2010

Presentations for presentation’s sake (or more specifically, for finance’s sake) aren’t always as exciting as the prospect might sound.  For financial reasons, a lot of designers opted for the presentation format this season, but not that many took full advantage of the fact that they were eschewing the conventional mode of models trotting up and down a catwalk.

Last week at Peter Jensen’s presentation, for about forty minutes I was so enchanted was I with the display held at the Carlton Terraces overlooking Pall Mall that I completely lost track of time.  Actually, it was speaking to Peter Jensen and his collaborator/muse for the season, artist Laurie Simmons, that really took up the time. I’m glad I did because as Jensen explained, there are things that can be a bit lost in translation on the catwalk, and that he’s glad he can speak in person at a slower pace at the exhibition.

From Jensen’s collection of Sindy garments, he then came across Simmons’ surreal and often subersive use of dolls in her photography work, which led to quite an amazing collaboration where Jensen made his collection in miniature and sent it over to Simmons in New York, who then photographed it all in a built set with the miniature clothes super-imposed on live-models.

Even in real life, the retrogazing clothes have a slight play on proportion about them that mens that there’s more exaggerated volume.  Though I’m never really fond of clothes that references one epoch and one epoch only, I do like that Jensen has made a return to that dream-like and whimsical aesthetic that his clothes have always evoked for me.  

 

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