J.W. Anderson Spring 2009

“Com­bin­ing sin­is­ter phe­nom­ena with a love of mys­ti­cal char­ac­ters in his­tory and lit­er­a­ture, the intensely dra­matic aes­thet­ics of J.W. Ander­son have made him one of the most intrigu­ing menswear design­ers in cur­rent British fash­ion. Born in Magher­afelt, North Ire­land in 1984, Jonathan William Ander­son orig­i­nally wanted to pur­sue a career in act­ing. In 2001, he moved to Wash­ing­ton D.C. to study drama at The Actor’s Stu­dio where he dis­cov­ered a love for stage cos­tumes. Ander­son soon moved back to Lon­don where, whilst work­ing as a styl­ist — most notably for the artist Rufus Wain­wright — Ander­son took his degree in menswear at the Lon­don Col­lege of Fash­ion. He grad­u­ated in 2007, at which point he estab­lished his label. J.W. Ander­son made its debut at Lon­don Fash­ion Week in Sep­tem­ber 2007 with a menswear col­lec­tion char­ac­ter­ized by the use of real insects in jew­el­ery. A dark, Rasputin-​​inspired autumn/​winter 2008 col­lec­tion, soon fol­lowed, before Ander­son made his break­through with the highly antic­i­pated spring/​summer 2009 col­lec­tion, An Eye for an Eye. J.W. Ander­son will show his fourth menswear col­lec­tion under MAN at Lon­don Fash­ion Week in Feb­ru­ary 2009.” [J.W. Ander­son]

Pic­tures from Cat­walk /​ J.W. Ander­son