A little chat with… designer jonathan anderson
Hi Jonathan, tell us a bit about what your day-to-day looks like right now. There’s a lot of travelling at the moment – I’m usually in London and Paris but I was also just at the men’s fashion week shows in Milan and Paris, and I was recently in South Korea, Ibiza, New York and Boston, too. What drew you to fashion design? I’ve always wanted to emphasise the creative. Over the years I’ve become more curatorial, but Idofind myself drawn back to the foundational ideas I set outto convey at the beginning. Asa creative director, I hope my work will be long lived and more permanent. Fashion now can be so temporary: here today and gone tomorrow. What’s your favourite part about being a fashion designer?
It’s always the creativity for me. At the moment, we’re rebuilding the Jwanderson brand as a lab of ideas – more like a start-up. We have space to be more creative and experimental – to explore things, and we’re not aiming for perfection. What were your influences for the new Uniqlo x JW Anderson spring collection? I’ve always had a connection to the sea, ever since I was a child in Northern Ireland. I now have a country house in Norfolk on the English coastline that Ivisit often and felt really inspired there for this collection. What’s your favourite item from the collection? Theboat patchwork sweatshirt in grey melange. The inspiration for the boat patchwork came from classic shirtingstripes, soit’s diving into the idea of craft, which I love.