Add to that the high-waisted trousers,chunky knit capes and preppy basics splashed with surrealist details seen on the Paris runway this week and its worth wrapping your tongue around the German name of the Spanish brand’s founder.
“I’m really just looking for things that excite me – it could be anything from a table,or a person,or a piece of art,” Anderson wrote by email,before his Paris Fashion Week show. “Each project has its own voice. They’re all a different avenue for my brain.”
There are plenty of voices in fashion but getting people to listen is a problem. Since launching his own label in 2008 JW Anderson,with a simple name to wrap your tongue around,the Northern Irishman has been a valued contributor to the fashion cacophony.
Anderson’s message of contemporary craftsmanship rose above the din in 2013 when executives from the luxury conglomerate LVMH hired him to run Loewe,which it fully acquired in 1996.
“When I joined Loewe,I spent a year researching the brand before releasing anything and was drawn to the history of craftsmanship in the brand,particularly when I visited the leather goods atelier in Madrid,” he says.
That craftsmanship can be found in thetop-selling puzzle bags carried by Beyoncé,Sienna Miller and Jennifer Lawrence but reached its zenith with the Anthurium dress,created from a single piece of leather for a seamless result.