JW ANDERSON SS18
Naturalness and stillness
Fashion
September 18th, 2017
September 18th, 2017
Jonathan Anderson presents a collection that evokes naturalness and stillness during the London Fashion Week, but does not abandon stylistic codes that have made it famous, such as love for deconstruction.
THE SET
To present the SS18 collection, Jonathan Anderson chose as the location Yeomanry House, a small military building in central London. Inside, no stage, but a naked circular space in the center, on a skinny wooden structure as a support, placed on a natural fiber interlaced piece by the contemporary artist Anne Low, three works by Isamu Noguchi, Franz Erhard Walther, Anthea Hamilton.
THE COLLECTION
True to his love for the deconstruction and the work in progress, Anderson abandons mannerism and unnecessary to focus on the essentials, the simplicity of the clothes. No concessions to redundancy.
He starts opting for materials, textures, and colors borrowed from nature as flax (the fabric manufacturer in Northern Ireland John England), cotton, canvas, leather that give pants and shorts body with the designer’s name embroidered above, tunics and mini dresses, jackets, top bustier, tees oversize and continues by creating slim volumes and using a palette of natural tones, warm, earthy colors.
Only small affectations through the introduction of stripes, inserts and puff sleeves.
