June, 20th, 2012

Resort 2013 | Peter Jensen : Hommage à Tippi Hedren

In front of the camera, poised, elegant, remote, and seemingly unattainable, reclined the exquisitely beautiful Tippi Hedren, his latest star, and the last in a long line of ice-cool blonde screen goddesses with whom Hitchcock had become fixated during his 40-year career. Miss Hedren, now 82, is the artistic adviser on the film. Her ‘one reservation’, she says, ‘is that I worry they will not portray me as strong a character as I was — and still am. I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock.

‘He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.’

The Peter Jensen Resort 2013 perfectly captured his lust for, and fear of, the alluring blonde.

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