In an announcement right this moment (2 June) on Instagram, it stated: “Dior is thrilled to welcome Jonathan Anderson as artistic director of ladies’s, males’s, and high fashion collections of the home.”
It’s the first time one designer has held this function since Christian Dior himself.
Anderson will current his first assortment, Dior Males spring/summer season 26, in Paris on 27 June 2025.
The information follows his appointment as artistic director of Dior’s menswear arm, Dior Homme in April, succeeding Kim Jones who exited in January.
There was hypothesis since then as as to if Anderson would take full artistic reign of each males’s and ladies’s ready-to-wear on the luxurious maison.
He left fellow LVMH model Loewe in March after 11 years as artistic director, the place he was credited for elevating the Spanish luxurious home’s profile, ushering it via the pandemic and luxurious slowdown and creating iconic silhouettes, such because the £2,900 Puzzle bag.
The Irish designer has additionally garnered quite a few accolades throughout his profession, together with British Designer of the 12 months in 2023 and 2024, for each his work at Loewe and his eponymous label, JW Anderson.
“I’m delighted to welcome Jonathan Anderson to guide the ladies’s and males’s creations of the Home,” stated Delphine Arnault, chair and CEO of Christian Dior Couture.
“I’ve adopted his profession with nice curiosity since he joined the LVMH group over ten years in the past. I’m satisfied that he’ll carry a artistic and trendy imaginative and prescient to our Home, impressed by the fabulous story of Monsieur Dior and the codes he created. He will likely be supported by our groups and our unbelievable Ateliers who will carry his creativity to life.”
“It’s a nice honour to hitch the Home of Dior as artistic director of each girls’s and males’s collections,” stated Anderson. “I’ve all the time been impressed by the wealthy historical past of this home, its depth, and empathy. I sit up for working alongside its legendary Ateliers to craft the following chapter of this unbelievable story. I wish to categorical my honest because of Delphine Arnault and Bernard Arnault for his or her belief and loyalty through the years.”
