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Economic Times
03-06-2025
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- Economic Times
Jonathan Anderson takes the reins at Dior: The fashion house's bold new era begins
Jonathan Anderson becomes the creative director at Dior. He will oversee womenswear, menswear, haute couture, and accessories. Anderson replaces Maria Grazia Chiuri. He previously worked at JW Anderson and Loewe. His first Dior collection will debut at Paris Fashion Week on June 27. The fashion world anticipates Anderson's innovative vision for the brand. Dior expects a renaissance under his leadership. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads In a move that's set the fashion world abuzz, Dior has handed the keys to its legendary atelier to none other than Jonathan Anderson , the Northern Irish designer celebrated for his boundary-pushing vision and fearless creativity. At just 40, Anderson steps into the role of creative director for both womenswear, menswear, haute couture, and accessories, a historic first since the days of Monsieur Dior appointment marks the end of Maria Grazia Chiuri 's nearly decade-long tenure as Dior's first female creative director, a period defined by feminist-leaning collections and memorable runway moments. Now, Anderson, already a household name thanks to his work at JW Anderson and his transformative decade at Loewe , is poised to write a new chapter for the storied French maison.'It is an honor to be joining such a deeply historic and emotionally resonant house,' Anderson shared in a statement. 'Dior has existed long enough to be a testament to the strength of dreaming. My dream is to carry that dream—bravely, honestly, and without apology.' Delphine Arnault, Chairperson and CEO of Dior, echoed the excitement, calling Anderson 'a designer of rare instinct and intelligence' and praising his vision for craft, innovation, and insiders are already speculating about what Anderson's Dior will look like. Will he reinvent the iconic Bar Jacket with a modern, sculptural twist? Could haute couture become more fluid, breaking free from traditional gender lines? 'He's not afraid to take risks,' fashion critic Sarah Mower noted. 'And that's what Dior needs.'Anderson's debut collection for Dior is slated to premiere at Paris Fashion Week on June 27, an event already billed as the hottest ticket in town. With the fashion industry hungry for reinvention—and Dior's sales dipping by 5% in early 2025—Anderson's appointment feels less like a changing of the guard and more like a full-blown renaissance for the thing's for sure: with Jonathan Anderson at the helm, Dior's future is anything but predictable—and that's exactly what makes it so exciting.
Time of India
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jonathan Anderson takes the reins at Dior: The fashion house's bold new era begins
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel In a move that's set the fashion world abuzz, Dior has handed the keys to its legendary atelier to none other than Jonathan Anderson , the Northern Irish designer celebrated for his boundary-pushing vision and fearless creativity. At just 40, Anderson steps into the role of creative director for both womenswear, menswear, haute couture, and accessories, a historic first since the days of Monsieur Dior appointment marks the end of Maria Grazia Chiuri 's nearly decade-long tenure as Dior's first female creative director, a period defined by feminist-leaning collections and memorable runway moments. Now, Anderson, already a household name thanks to his work at JW Anderson and his transformative decade at Loewe , is poised to write a new chapter for the storied French maison.'It is an honor to be joining such a deeply historic and emotionally resonant house,' Anderson shared in a statement. 'Dior has existed long enough to be a testament to the strength of dreaming. My dream is to carry that dream—bravely, honestly, and without apology.' Delphine Arnault, Chairperson and CEO of Dior, echoed the excitement, calling Anderson 'a designer of rare instinct and intelligence' and praising his vision for craft, innovation, and insiders are already speculating about what Anderson's Dior will look like. Will he reinvent the iconic Bar Jacket with a modern, sculptural twist? Could haute couture become more fluid, breaking free from traditional gender lines? 'He's not afraid to take risks,' fashion critic Sarah Mower noted. 'And that's what Dior needs.'Anderson's debut collection for Dior is slated to premiere at Paris Fashion Week on June 27, an event already billed as the hottest ticket in town. With the fashion industry hungry for reinvention—and Dior's sales dipping by 5% in early 2025—Anderson's appointment feels less like a changing of the guard and more like a full-blown renaissance for the thing's for sure: with Jonathan Anderson at the helm, Dior's future is anything but predictable—and that's exactly what makes it so exciting.
Telegraph
27-01-2025
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- Telegraph
Move over stealth wealth, ultra-rich dressing is back
Let's be clear, haute couture has always been for the ultra-wealthy. The clue's in the word haute. But with the leaders of the planet's richest, most powerful tech companies doggedly sticking to a wardrobe that looks more Aldi than Armani Privé and film stars not paying for anything they wear on a red carpet (although often they are paid), it has been hard to see couture's purpose of late. Meanwhile, ready-to-wear labels such as Lora Piano, Brunello Cuccinelli and The Row, all makers of sublimely luxurious, loosely cut clothes that to the untrained eye might look like quite nice blankets, have cleaned up. Yet with In the seven years she has headed the creative side of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, often derided by the social media gallery for being 'too commercial', has made Dior one of those high end luxury brands that sells not just accessories, but a lot of tailored clothes. She placed its meticulously tailored Bar Jacket (first introduced in 1947 as part of Dior's iconic New Look) front and centre and constantly updated it. It is already a Now she's turned it into something quirkier and more gothic: a frock coat, sometimes jet beaded and long enough to be worn as a (mini) tuxedo dress. At first sight these frock coats appeared to be cut away at the front, and buttonless. But as she explained backstage, the nehru neck lined gilets and filmy chemises underneath were buttoned into the frock coats. They could be worn as a combination or separately. More practicality. The frock coats were part military, part Mad Hatter – there was definitely something of the Victorian Alice in Wonderland afoot. Black goth jackets with puff sleeves, trompe l'œil feathery capes (the feathers were fabric fronds), airy crinolines and Mohican hairdos intercut white broderie anglaise baby dolls. All nicely discombobulating. It was Yves Saint Laurent, barely into his 20s, who, in 1958, came up with the baby doll silhouette when he was at Dior. Although it has been far eclipsed as a Dior signature by Dior's 1947 New Look, the baby doll (or trapeze as it was known) has been much copied ever since. Bypassing the waist in a triangular whoosh of fabric, it's so different from the chiselled bar jacket it's hard to imagine the same customer wearing it. But as Chiuri says, 'fashion is all about shape shifting and transforming our bodies.' It was smart of her to pivot to a more youthful mood – and smarter still to ensure there was plenty of recognisably Bar Jacket tailoring. There are plenty of inexpensive dupes of The Row's tailoring which are fairly convincing until you feel the fabric. But I've never seen a bar jacket copy that comes close to the real thing. Chiuri is a maestro of unmistakably expensive but never vulgar polish. Under its brilliant Roseberry is a big talent who, since he joined it in 2019, has taken Schiaparelli from an also ran heritage house to one that attracts a disproportionate amount of media attention. In the beginning, he achieved this with slickly orchestrated gimmicks guaranteed to stir up controversy. Remember the dresses he designed two years ago featuring what looked like This collection was gimmick free however, unless you count that tiny waist (the nearest I've ever seen on a catwalk, to the waists in John Singer Sargent portraits). Instead there were plenty of cantilevered bustiers, cleverly framed behind drape-fronted corsets – and sweeping skirts. I'm sure Roseberry was working on this collection long before
