Jonathan Anderson - Designer, Creative Director of JW Anderson & Christian Dior

[Simera]

Lady Dior with clovers just makes me think of the texture of a frog. Like a big African bullfrog. That's so unappealing, and I kinda like frogs too....

 

[PPPT]

I really hope they bring back the Be Dior. It was such a well-designed bag (though please fix those front Dior charms they always flip and tangle messily every time you open the flap). It clearly carried the DNA of the Lady Dior. If Lady Dior is the Birkin, then Be Dior was ready to be the Kelly.

And of course, bring back the Miss Dior Flap Bag from the Galliano era or Diorama from Raf they were the true Constance equivalents. Offer them all in smooth leather or classic Cannage options, and then just throw the Caroand 30 Montaigne with the oversized CD logos straight into the trash.

 

[PDFSD]

The BoF Podcast | In Paris, Hellos, Goodbyes and Waiting For Creative Change​

Tim Blanks and Imran Amed share their highlights and takeaways as Jonathan Anderson takes Dior into a new era, Demna closes his Balenciaga chapter and luxury brands face a value proposition reckoning.

pod cast link : The BoF Podcast | In Paris, Hellos, Goodbyes and Waiting For Creative Change

Key Insights:​

• Jonathan Anderson’s debut at Dior represented the start of a carefully managed transformation. “Dior is like a performance for him; JW Anderson is the real Jonathan,” said Blanks. “I felt he was on a mission to manage expectations. He was basically saying, give me time.” The conceptual collection served as an opening statement rather than a full evolution.

 

[Grets]

Just listened to that podcast. Seemed like they were more interested in talking about JWAs repurposed garden tools over the Dior fashion. And when they were it was a defence of a lacklustre debut.

 

[PDFSD]

Just listened to that podcast. Seemed like they were more interested in talking about JWAs repurposed garden tools over the Dior fashion. And when they were it was a defence of a lacklustre debut.

also celine one was like mine field ...later to end it with must be the heat that they can't think clearly now lolz

 

[Grets]

also celine one was like mine field ...later to end it with must be the heat that they can't think clearly now lolz

LMAO! When Tim was like he didn't even go, says it all

 

[PDFSD]

LMAO! When Tim was like he didn't even go, says it all

because an interview ..........at that same hour as the show???? loll !!!!! child !!!!!!the show was planned months ago lol

 

[PierreGotha]

That "Lolita" Lady Dior is a smart tweak. I can see younger clients falling for it, as well as the Asian market.

I wouldn't be surprised if he revived the Diorama, leaning towards the menswear line. That's just my hunch.

 

[FashionPower]

That's all.

 

[reese06]

Ok, we know you are Irish...what´s the point of covering the Lady Dior with clovers?? What´s next, renaming the bag to Lady Leprechaun??

Another Lady Dior with just a single bow...WOW! I can´t with that creative overdose. The same with the tassel covered one. Well, there is no need to make collabs with artists, because it seems Johnny is going to customize all Dior bags by himself!

I’m sure when they are presenting this to sales team they will say something like this “the four leaf clover is for luck which we know Mr Dior himself was obsessed with carrying his lucky charms with him, superstition, blah blah blah. JW Anderson is Irish and blah blah blah… Think of carrying this bag covered in four leaf clovers as always having good luck with you”… for 12k of course

 

[tigerrouge]

The finer points of identity (and the signifiers of such) within Northern Ireland are very fraught things, it's almost better that the wider world wouldn't know where to start with any of it, and are happy to gloss over everything by thinking of someone as "Irish".

Within NI, someone called Jonathan William Anderson would be seen as someone on the British end of the scale, rather than someone who would be Irish.

However, there is nothing to stop someone from identifying as Irish, even if they would not have come from that background, for various reasons personal to them. Although it doesn't come without consequences within NI, although the consequences tend to lessen, the higher your socio-economic background is.

Personally, this is probably the most interesting things for me about JWA - to see how someone from NI handles this sense of identity, when all the eyes of the world are upon him.

While he may never plan on living here again, I don't think it ever leaves you, these internal conflicts with identity - and that's not even adding in the layers that come from his father being a successful sportsperson with issues of his own to overcome, and the experience of being gay in what was definitely not a friendly place for that.

All this to say that the four-leaf clover bag could be even more reductive than it seems.

 

[PDFSD]

I’m sure when they are presenting this to sales team they will say something like this “the four leaf clover is for luck which we know Mr Dior himself was obsessed with carrying his lucky charms with him, superstition, blah blah blah. JW Anderson is Irish and blah blah blah… Think of carrying this bag covered in four leaf clovers as always having good luck with you”… for 12k of course

heheh at least the story is cohesive and makes sense ...after all you buy into a story as well provenance heritage and concept brand halo

could have been worse like just the new old Dior font printed on it by special technique and call it a day ala Givenchy or celine etc .