Jonathan William Anderson was born in 1984 in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, the son of a rugby player. He studied at the London College of Fashion, graduated in 2007, and launched JW Anderson in 2008. Within four years he was showing womenswear.

Loewe

In September 2013 LVMH appointed him creative director of Loewe, a Spanish leather-goods house founded in 1846 and then commercially stagnant. Over the eleven years that followed, Anderson rebuilt Loewe into one of the group’s most culturally distinctive houses. The Puzzle bag (2015), the Hammock, the Flamenco, and the viral heel-as-candle stunt of 2022 made Loewe, briefly, the most-discussed house of its size in Europe.

The Craft Prize

Anderson’s most substantial structural contribution was the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, founded in 2016, which awards EUR 50,000 annually to a maker working in traditional craft. The prize is now among the three best-regarded craft awards globally.

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Luxury without craft is a handbag with a logo on it. — Jonathan Anderson

Dior

In March 2025 LVMH announced Anderson as Kim Jones’s successor at Dior Men, and in late 2025 he is expected to assume Dior womenswear from Maria Grazia Chiuri. The consolidation is the largest single creative-director appointment since Galliano’s Dior tenure.