Who was the model on Loose Women today (09.09.09)?
Talent-spotted at 14 by Valentino, photographed for Elle by Helmut Newton and assaulted with a lemon meringue pie in The Sopranos, Robyn Peterson reveals all in her one-woman show Catwalk Confidential. The 70s fashion icon tells Claire Sawers how a Florida girl came of age There are about 4000 watery miles between Miami and Paris. But for Robyn Peterson, who grew up in sunny Florida, and moved to the French capital when she was 16 to launch her modelling career, the cities may as well have been a million miles apart. ‘I was used to seeing men in white shoes and gold chains. Miami Beach in the late 60s was full of nightclubs and small-time gangsters. I got to Paris, and it was a whole other world. I’d never seen anything so beautiful. I remember walking down the street and thinking, “oh my god almighty!” I couldn’t speak the language, I couldn’t understand a word. But it was an amazing experience.’ Now in her fifties, and chatting from her home in Los Angeles, Peterson rewinds the tape
