Catwalk Confidential

Synopsis

Part fairy-tale, part memoir, part romance, this funny, cautionary and at times moving tale tells the story of 16 year-old Robyn fresh from Miami, who gets caught up in the world of high fashion amidst the boulevards of Paris in the early 1970s. Robyn became one of the top models of the period, working with photographers such as Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin and designers Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent and Kenzo. Her face appeared on the covers of Vogue, Elle and Marie Claire. Amidst this whirlwind life of glamour, sex and drugs, Robyn discovers there is one thing to fear above all else – age – there is always a younger girl waiting to step into your shoes.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 10 September 2009

Robyn Peterson, a top model from Miami, has matured into a middle-aged fashion tipster with the splendidly unwholesome, raunchy appeal of an Angela Dickinson or a Kathleen Turner.

Her 80-minute show, coming to the Arts from the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, is part memoir, part cautionary tale, but mostly very well written and delivered with a nice swish in the tail and an irrefutable sense of authority: this woman has lived a life, and is obviously still living it.

She leaves Miami Beach – once described as “where neon goes to die” by Lenny Bruce – as a sixteen year-old, her mother’s advice ringing in her ears: “Keep your knees together and watch your handbag.” And on her first night in New York, she’s accosted by a photographer at a pizza stall and ends up in his studio on a waterbed smoking a joint and having sex.

This information rings true in essence but is probably condensed for effect. But as Peterson adver...

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Latest User Review

jamie tate - 10 September 2009:

Michael reads as a 4 and I think it is. Was a really rather smart show that held lots of interest and made you laugh out lound and think,,,,,,,,to be at the very TOP of ones game for only 10 years. A real comment on 'youth' and what it means. Well done Robyn, brave and I would have liked more. Excellent setting and nice lighting. Hope it gets some people along, it deserves to if the right people get to know about it....

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