After months of hypothesis and hearsay, it has been confirmed this morning that Jonathan Anderson is the brand new inventive director of Dior Males, succeeding Kim Jones, who exited the Parisian home in January.
Anderson arrives at Dior from Loewe, after a transformative 11-year tenure as inventive director of the home’s males’s and womenswear strains. The information was introduced this morning by Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, on the luxurious conglomerate’s shareholder assembly.
Loewe’s S/S 2025 menswear assortment, designed by Jonathan Anderson
(Picture credit score: Pictures by Molly Lowe, courtesy of Loewe)
The Northern Irish designer rose to prominence along with his eponymous London-based label JW Anderson, becoming a member of Loewe in 2013. Reimagining the Spanish home’s visible identification, alongside M/M Paris, he would make Loewe into certainly one of trend’s main gamers, know for an idiosyncratic, oftentimes surreal strategy to design and elevation of craft (later collections would come with components from balloon-shaped heels to hammered-metal angel wings).
‘Whereas reflecting on the final 11 years, I’ve been fortunate sufficient to be surrounded by individuals with the creativeness, the talents, the tenacity and the resourcefulness to discover a technique to say “sure” to all my wildly formidable concepts,’ Anderson mentioned on the time. ‘Whereas my chapter attracts to a detailed, Loewe’s story will proceed for a few years to come back, and I’ll look on with delight, watching it proceed to develop, the superb Spanish model I as soon as known as residence.’
Although it’s but to be introduced, Anderson is about to proceed at his eponymous label. His first assortment for Dior Males can be proven in June 2025 in Paris. At Loewe, he can be succeeded by Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, founders of Proenza Schouler.
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