JW Anderson
Company type | Private (LVMH minority stake) |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 2008 |
Founder | Jonathan Anderson |
Headquarters | London , United Kingdom |
Key people | Jonathan Anderson (creative director) |
Products | Luxury goods |
Website | jwanderson |
JW Anderson is a
JW Anderson won both men's and women's brand of the year at British Fashion Council's The Fashion Awards in 2015, the first brand to pick up both awards in the same year.[1]
History
JW Anderson launched a menswear line in 2008. It later introduced a womenswear line for autumn 2010. During the same year, JW Anderson received sponsorship from the British Fashion Council committee, presenting their first catwalk collection at London Fashion Week.[4] JW Anderson secured its second sponsorship from the British Fashion Council in 2011, before winning the Emerging Talent Award in 2012.
JW Anderson became a more widely known brand in Britain after Jonathan Anderson collaborated with
In June 2013, Jonathan Anderson showcased his first collection for
JW Anderson gave exclusive livestreaming rights to the queer dating app Grindr for their Autumn/Winter 2016 fashion show.[15] Users of the app were given a link to the livestream in their inboxes, which they opened in their phone or tablet browsers.[15] The show was played on a loop for twenty-four hours after it was completed.[16]
Workshops
Taking inspiration from the Omega Workshops, JW Anderson announced it would be launching its own workshops in Shoreditch, London.[17] Formerly known as the JW Anderson Workshops, it was created to merge an exhibition experience within a store.[18]
The workshops housed a number of collections and collaborations throughout 2016, including with
The JW Anderson Workshops also co-released a book with Spanish publisher Luis Venegas in 2016.[27]
Exhibition
JW Anderson announced their first exhibition in September 2016, Disobedient Bodies at The Hepworth Wakefield from March to June 2017.[28] The show aimed to create discussion on the theme of the body,[29] specifically how each body part can disobey the body. More than 100 works were presented at the exhibition, including Issey Miyake and Yves Saint Laurent.[28]
In 2020, JW Anderson made the knitting pattern pattern for a rainbow cardigan musician Harry Styles wore in rehearsals for the Today Show available to the public after knitting it became a DIY challenge on TikTok.[30] Later that year, it was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum as an item of cultural importance related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[31]
Awards and honors
In 2015, JW Anderson under Jonathan Anderson became the first brand to win both Menswear Designer of The Year and Womenswear Designer of the Year awards at The Fashion Awards.[1]
Award | Year | Recipient(s) | Category | Ref. |
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The Fashion Awards | 2012 | JW Anderson | Emerging Talent Award - Ready-To-Wear | [32] |
2013 | JW Anderson | New Establishment Designer of The Year | ||
2014 | JW Anderson | Menswear Designer of The Year | ||
2015 | JW Anderson | Menswear Designer of The Year | ||
JW Anderson | Womenswear Designer of The Year | |||
2017 | Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson | British Designer of The Year - Womenswear |
Collaborations
- Topshop (2012 - 2013)
- Versus Versace (2013)
- Uniqlo (2017 - present)
- Converse(2017)
- Moncler (2020 - present)
References
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- ^ a b Sowray, Bibby (June 13, 2012). "Topshop announce JW Anderson collaboration". The Telegraph.
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- ^ Fox, Imogen (June 13, 2012). "JW Anderson to launch Topshop range". The Guardian.
- ^ François, Laurent “Lilzeon” (October 4, 2013). "The end of gender in fashion?". hit-bag.com. The Boulevardiers and their Hit Bag. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013.
- ^ Cochrane, Lauren (May 16, 2013). "Versace unveils first Versus collection by JW Anderson in New York". The Guardian. Archived from the original on April 6, 2023.
- ^ "Exclusive: LVMH considers creative director change at Louis Vuitton". Reuters. July 20, 2016.
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- ^ Neate, Rupert (September 26, 2013). "LVMH buys stake in fashion label JW Anderson". The Guardian.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
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- ^ Moss, Victoria (September 18, 2016). "Reign of glory: how British heritage house Mackintosh took the catwalks by storm". Telegraph.
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- ^ "Jamie Hawkesworth at JW Anderson Workshops". BecauseLondon. November 29, 2016.
- ^ Eckardt, Stephanie (March 26, 2016). "Get to Know Photographer Ian David Baker, J.W. Anderson's Latest Collaborator". W.
- ^ Sauvalle, Julien (January 9, 2017). "Daily Crush: J.W. Anderson's 'Paolo' T-Shirt by Alasdair McLellan". Out.
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- ^ a b Radnor, Abigail (March 10, 2017). "'It is quite petrifying': designer JW Anderson on his first exhibition". The Guardian.
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- ^ Kim, YeEun (Nov 17, 2020). "JW Anderson's Harry Styles Cardigan Gets Immortalized at V&A Museum". Hypebae. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ Holland, Oscar (November 23, 2020). "The V&A museum has acquired the Harry Styles cardigan that sparked a TikTok craze". CNN. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ "Our Story". JW Anderson. 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2022-01-21.