The many muses of Peter Jensen over the years include Fanny from the Ingmar Bergman film Fanny and Alexander, John Waters actress Mink Stole, Mike Leigh's Candice-Marie in Nuts in May and Gertrude Stein and her love Alice B. Toklas. To start off 2009, Peter Jensen took the opportunity to look back over these inspirations and ransacked the archive prints he developed to create six unique dresses for Dover Street Market. The prints were specifically chosen for the stories they tell; "We chose these prints because they all seem to have the same starting point and they all tell a story within themselves; Like the Fanny print, which was based on the Ingmar Bergman film and is about seeing the grow up world though the eyes of a child. I remember myself having a train that would take up a whole room when it was set up and I loved to play with it. All the prints have a similar little story within them."

The dresses are now sitting pretty at Dover Street Market in an installation designed by Shona Heath, who has collaborated with Jensen in the past. "Shona wanted to create something that would have a starting point in the prints. A few of them, like the Helena print is of a city, so we though that it would work well to create an installation which reflected this," explains Jensen. Cue a cardboard city reminiscent of Michel Gondry's dream depictions in Science of Sleep, that for the first time gives Jensen a specially designated and custom made area in the store. "I love Dover Street Market, I feel really priviliged to be working with them. The collection that I have designed for them is a celebration of my prints, which are so important to my work. I’m really happy to have the chance to work with Shona Heath on the space, I love having my own special part of the store”

Peter Jensen's special edition print dresses available at Dover Street Market now.