"'The most important thing to decide is whether you are a leader or a follower,' he tells me from across a large table in his airy Paris office. It's December, and we're in Dior's menswear headquarters in the 8th arrondissement, not far from the Arc de Triomphe and Place de la Concorde. Anderson is fresh off the Eurostar, having just been crowned Designer of the Year at the Fashion Awards in London for the third consecutive time."
"If decisive leadership is Anderson's modus operandi, original thinking is his defining skill. Before joining Dior in 2025, the forty-two-year-old Northern Irish designer spent eleven years at the fashion house Loewe, where he transformed the fortunes of the once sleepy LVMH-owned leather-goods label. His idea-crammed collections were inspired as much by the artists whose pieces, sculptures, and paintings he collected as by the works of literature picked to the bone by his magpie-like mind."
Jonathan Anderson emphasizes decisive leadership over following and values original thinking as a driver of creative and commercial success. He leads Dior's menswear and womenswear from Paris and arrives with recent industry recognition, including consecutive Designer of the Year honors in London. Anderson builds a studio culture marked by curated gestures and close staff engagement. He spent eleven years at Loewe, revitalizing the LVMH-owned leather-goods label through idea-dense collections. Anderson draws inspiration from visual artists and from literature, producing projects that integrate books and archive imagery into fashion presentation and product design.
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