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

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Its gonna be a long ride

 

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Kim resigned due to personal reasons I’ve heard…

I don’t believe Delphine scrapped Anderson’s first collection - I agree with operational person to say he just hasn’t shown it to anybody yet. There was simply no time and on top of that Delphine (judging by her approach to designers at large) is not sticking her nose to creative processes. She is not Ferragamo or Gucci…

Delphine said it herself in the BOF article on June 2th - 2025 : From what I’ve already seen on men’s, it’s very impressive what he’s doing.

It is possible she could have said to him work more on it (whole collection can mean first 10 15 looks or 100 looks variations) who know its all possible she is via her Father the owner of Dior, they can do or say what they like.

her father did also same at start with NG when he saw the petit male he knew it will be a hit this was before the show
CD do have interval meeting to show collection development for big shows especially at the start, once all is running fine it happens far less and more at the mid end of each collection pre showing it to the public.

problem is when the ceo starts commenting on fabrics or colors or x son or x daughter likes this type of shoe or artist etc .
but a ceo or board can and will block if parts of main direction is not what is expected of an show collection or adv creative direction or talent selection etc

with billions at stake creative teams are progress monitored as everything else in a company

 

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Crazy drama. So she locked him into Dior to prevent him from going to Gucci. JWA at Gucci seems perfect. Way better than Dior.

Yeah Im sure they use SalesForce or similar to manage the pipeline... So they can 100% check in whenever they like.