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10 Things We Want From JW Anderson&#;s Rebrand
Just over a week ago, Jonathan Anderson made history. Serving up his debut Dior men’s collection with a muted flurry of iconoclast shorts, coats and capes, the Irish designer officially became the first sole creative director of the French maison since Monsieur Dior. A colossal employment, as you might predict , it comes with a total of 10 collections a year – with the work he’s doing at his own trademark, JW Anderson, piling up on top of that. If there’s any human up for the position, it is Anderson, but that hasn’t stopped the rumours from swirling around what his plans are for his namesake label. Will it shutter? Will it stay? Will he still take to the runway? Today, our curiosities were quelled. JW Anderson is getting a completely new concept.
Becoming something akin to a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, the novel JW Anderson will fixate on “objects of elevated craftsmanship” – so homewares and artisanal goods – as successfully as curated fashion collections, with a magpie sensibility centred around this concept of collecting and curating. In the coming month
There was a day when a dude was only as good as his best suit. In Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, William Lee, an aimless gay scribe and addict played by Daniel Craig, stalks the streets of s Mexico City wearing a summer-weight beige two-piece. Soiled around the edges and soaked with sweat and dregs of tequila, it’s the skin of a dandy undone: compact enough to be folded into a suitcase, made for drinking, cruising and going home to your typewriter – and heroin.
Queer, adapted from William S. Burroughs’ autobiographical novella of the same name, is the second costume collaboration between between Guadagnino and Jonathan Anderson, Loewe creative director and JW Anderson founder. For Anderson, finding a suit that was real to the period, one with texture and wear, was critical to fleshing out the traits. “It is a period of age that, for me, is fundamental in the birth of the modern male,” Anderson says. “A period that is very subtle, but ultimately, there&#;s a lot of depth to what menswear was going through.”
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The Story Behind JW Anderson’s Collaboration with Tom of Finland
Arriving in JW Anderson’s Soho store and online today, the collaboration will celebrate the legendary queer artist’s boundary-pushing work. Here, Jonathan Anderson tells us the story behind the pieces
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The Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson first discovered the work of Finnish draughtsman Touko Laaksonen – better known by professional moniker Tom of Finland – inside old copies of Physique Pictorial, the Bob Mizer-edited ‘beefcake’ magazine which was first published in the s. Known for his erotic illustrations of hyper-masculine archetypes, from muscled cowboys and lumberjacks to shirtless sailors and leather-clad cops, Tom of Finland’s work is a proud and subversive depiction of gay sexuality, first disseminated to the world through sex shops and underground bookstores extended before homosexuality was made legal in his home country in “For him to be coming up with an aesthetic prefer he did was way before his time,” Anderson tells AnOther. “I think he is someone who has really changed lgbtq+
Last year Jonathan Anderson released a JW Anderson collaboration with Tom of Finland and it instantly sold out. Following that triumph, the Irish designer now brings a sophomore capsule that expands on those initial accessory drops with a selection of ready-to-wear pieces.
An untitled image by Finnish draughtsman Touko Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland) leads the collection, depicting a ToF man in signature uniform – leather boots, gloves, cap and crotch piece – drawn across t-shirts, shirting, hoodies, bags and shorts. Penis keyrings and Cap bags complete the collection, fitted with kinky studs and piercings.
“We had such a good time working on the first collection and working with the Foundation was a pleasure,” said Anderson about the second round of the capsule. “As a gay male and a designer, Tom of Finland has always fascinated me. I harvest all types of art including his drawings. To be able to utilize them in a JW Anderson collection is so exciting. I am really proud of this year’s collection and love that we were able to expand it to comprise ready-to-wear.”
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