At LVMH’s annual shareholders’ meeting, Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault announced the appointment of Jonathan Anderson as Artistic Director at Dior Men. Anderson succeeds Kim Jones and will present his first collection in June.
LVMH Announces The Appointment Of Jonathan Anderson As Artistic Director Of Dior Men
“Christian Dior Couture announces the appointment of Jonathan Anderson as artistic director of men’s collections,” the luxury brand confirmed in a statement. “Anderson is working on the Dior Homme Summer 2026 collection, which he will present in Paris on June 27, 2025 at 2:30pm.”
This is the first time LVMH made it official that Jonathan Anderson has a new designation within the luxury group since the he stepped down from Loewe last month after an eleven-year tenure. Anderson will succeed Kim Jones, who stepped down shortly after presenting Dior Fall 2025 Menswear at Paris Fashion Week and being awarded France’s highest civilian decoration, Légion d’Honneur.
Despite speculation at the shareholders’ meeting, Arnault did not comment if Anderson is also poised to take over Dior women’s, helmed by Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri since 2016 though he mentioned the group’s recent recruits: Sarah Burton at Givenchy, Michael Rider at Celine, and Proenza Schouler founders Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCullough at Loewe.
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Jonathan Anderson
Anderson studied menswear at the London College of Fashion, graduating in 2005 and going on to work in visual merchandising at Prada under Manuela Pavesi. He consulted for several brands before launching JW Anderson in 2008. The label was noticed by Sophie Brocart, senior vice president of LVMH fashion ventures at the time, particularly his “shared wardrobe” approach, based on the idea that men could pick and choose from women’s wardrobes, just as women have long been able to do from those of men’s.
LVMH took a minority stake in the fashion brand in 2013 and the Northern Irish designer was appointed creative director of the LVMH-owned Spanish luxury house Loewe in September 2013. Anderson’s appointment was accompanied by organisational changes: the design studio was moved from Madrid to Paris, while the JW Anderson brand remained based in London.
Anderson set a high bar at Loewe, transforming the Madrid-based house recognised for leather goods and perfumes into a global fashion brand. “I am incredibly grateful to Jonathan Anderson for the eleven years of unmatched creativity, passion and dedication that he has given to Loewe. With him as its creative director, the House has risen to new heights with international recognition. The Puzzle bag, celebrating its 10th anniversary, has become a true icon, and the brand codes that he has created, rooted in craft, will live on as his legacy,” said Pascale Lepoivre, chief executive officer of Loewe.
Jonathan Anderson transformed Loewe- recognised for leather goods and perfumes- into a global fashion brand.
“I have had the pleasure of working with some of the great artistic directors of recent times, and I consider Jonathan Anderson to be amongst the very best. What he has contributed to Loewe goes beyond creativity. He has built a rich and eclectic world with strong foundations in craft which will enable the House to thrive long after his departure,” said Sidney Toledano, head of LVMH Fashion Group.
Jonathan Anderson’s designs for Loewe and his own fashion brand JW Anderson earned several awards, including the 2022 WWD Honour for Womenswear Designer of the Year, International Designer of the Year Award at the 2023 CFDA Fashion Awards, the Neiman Marcus Award for Creative Impact in the Field of Fashion in 2023 and Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2023, 2024.
Dior Men At Paris Fashion Week
Dior menswear masterfully shifted between periods and silhouettes, with men’s couture integrated into the ready-to-wear line. There were satin blouses with balloon sleeves, a monastic coat worn as a long skirt, open-neck sweaters and jackets with raised drawstring collar and buckled sleeves, the trench and the opera coat. A play of volume is seen throughout, from fitted to flared; a nod to gender inclusive fashion.
Though Jones uses silk and satin, the silhouettes are stripped back through controlled drapery. The main embroidery is taken from Dior Spring 1948 haute couture and the bows, spotted on the footwear and the back of opera coats, support gender fluidity.
The figure of Casanova dominates the collection steeped in the excesses of the eighteenth century, the extravagant man and the motif of the mask i.e. the blindfold worn by the male models. Per WWD: ‘Back in the 18th century, it was not unusual to see fashionable men sporting brightly colored silk damask coats. Jones channeled that idea with belted kimono jackets and a pink satin robe embroidered with a motif borrowed from Dior’s Pondichéry dress from 1948.’
“We wanted to go back to the roots and concentrate on the quintessence of the house. There is a sense of fashion history, particularly the history of menswear, running through this collection. The shift from something quite ornate and extravagant in the eighteenth century to something more linear and utilitarian in the nineteenth… Yet, while a lot refers to the history of fashion, this is not historical fashion. Ultimately, in this collection, we wanted to say something about now,” explains Kim Jones in the press release.
Dior Men FW 2025 At Paris Fashion Week
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