We consider Peter Jensen's Peanuts-inspired S/S15 collection, with make-up by Isamaya Ffrench
Snoopy and Charlie Brown are having a bit of a moment in fashion. Hot off the back of Coach’s Peanuts-inspired leather range, Peter Jensen has also taken inspiration from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip. In particularly, the female characters – Peppermint Patty, Sally Brown and Lucy Van Pelt. As a child, Jensen enjoyed their opinionated, headstrong personalities as they scolded poor Snoopy for sleeping or unlucky Charlie B for being late. Jensen translates the surreal, slightly twisted world of Peanuts into his S/S15 collection. Some aspects are quite literal – Lucy’s hair bow illustrated as a print or iconic lines scrawled across sweatshirts, while others looks were simply imbued with the mischievous, playful Peanuts charm, in bubble gum pink, bright yellow and Schulz Pantone blue. There is also a sexiness to Jensen’s Charlie Brown ladies – hemlines are short and knitwear is backless.
Jensen brought in Isamaya Ffrench to lend her artful thumb to the make-up for the look book – bright, painterly stripes and surrealist colour-block eyelids. “It was about taking little illustrative elements from the cartoon and putting them onto the face,” explains Ffrench. “Using black, pink, yellow and blue.”
"Jensen translates the surreal, slightly twisted world of Peanuts into his S/S15 collection"
Peanuts ran as a comic strip from 1950 to 2000 and is considered the most popular and influential cartoon in the history of comic strips. 17,897 strips were published in total, running in over 2,600 newspapers. Schulz based Snoopy on his family dog, Spike, who impressed the family with his intelligence and aplomb. The losing baseball team that Schulz played in also inspired the cartoon. Other themes included unrequited love and the tough fact that kids can be cruel. Here, we take a look at Jensen's tough girls, styled by AnOther's very own Cathy Edwards.
The new collection is available exclusively at Browns.
Words by Mhairi Graham
