Jonathan Anderson becomes Dior's overall artistic director

Jonathan Anderson was originative manager of Loewe from 2013. Photo: Michael Tran / AFP/File
Source: AFP

Jonathan Anderson volition go the archetypal decorator to caput some the women's and men's lines astatine Dior, the French fashion house's genitor institution said connected Monday.

The Northern Irish decorator was named arsenic caput of the women's line, LVMH said successful a station connected societal media, pursuing past week's departure of Italian adjacent Maria Grazia Chiuri.

Anderson had already been named arsenic creator manager of Dior's men's postulation successful April, and volition present go the archetypal idiosyncratic to tally some collections astatine the iconic French brand, the second-biggest successful LVMH's manner stable.

Anderson, 40, discontinue Loewe successful March period aft much than a decennary successful which helium turned astir the fortunes of the practice Spanish brand.

An influential tastemaker with galore A-list fans, Anderson made the antecedently alternatively sleepy label, champion known for its handbags, hot.

Fashion mogul Bernard Arnault, whose LVMH conglomerate owns some Dior and Loewe, broke the quality astatine a shareholders gathering successful Paris.

There had been overmuch speculation that Anderson, renowned for his originative flights of fancy, mightiness instrumentality implicit some Dior's men's and women's collections, which immoderate observers had seen arsenic needing caller impetus.

Source: AFP