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Peter Jensen’s Grandma Chic Silhouettes Make It to Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Peter Jensen’s Grandma Chic Silhouettes Make It to Metropolitan Museum of Art

WWD·Samantha Conti·27 days ago
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GOLDEN AGE: Peter Jensen isn’t ashamed to admit that a phone call from Andrew Bolton changed his life. A few months ago, Bolton, head curator of The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, asked to purchase two looks from Jensen’s YoursTruly collection, a move that sent the Danish designer into “total happiness mode.” “For an independent designer like me, with no big financial backing, this is everything. Not only am I happy but I’m newly motivated as well. It means so much to me,” said Jensen in a telephone interview from Atlanta, where he’s a professor of fashion at Savannah College of Art and Design . You May Also Like Jensen said the looks, two seersucker floral-printed dresses, were based on his grandmother’s gardening outfits. They were made from beige, blue and black fabric sourced from a 1930s vintage store. He paired those dresses with vintage Burberry raincoats, which he transformed into capes. He adorned those capes with giant brooches sprouting long hair.…

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