JW Anderson Spring/Summer 2018 Ready-To-Wear Collection

Jonathan Anderson arrives to take us on a tour of the teen classroom with his distinctive outfit: a blue sweater and faded jeans. With him is one of the personal helpers, Sandra, the French middle-aged woman similarly modestly dressed, to realize that your silk scarf, the collection of s / l Loaf '18, is printed with the images of homorette starkly. By photographer Bruce of Los Angeles. "I think it's because I grew up in Northern Ireland and there was something here, no education about the idea of ​​being gay, and now every time I find something [like Bruce's file from LA], think about it," says Anderson. About how one day I like to collect a lot of things and put them in an institution in Ireland so they have to deal with it, which is twisted. "

"Twisted" is a good word to use when it comes to Anderson's work. Over the past decade, the young designer has been enthralled by her name to enjoy the aesthetic discomfort: silhouettes and thought-provoking and alien twists of tailoring and inspiration confrontation and subversive images. Walking along the main street of Maggierville, it is hard to imagine that it comes from this perfectly normal scene. The only clothes that can be found here are dazzling dresses or tonal suits in the windows of local shops; the only art of those exotic carvings financed by the board which is in the middle of the roundabout. When installed, earlier this year, local trade unionists said they would prefer new public toilets.

"I always think I've been attracted to very difficult things," says Anderson. "Hard Art or Hard Images". This does not mean that his designs are difficult to use, because the other thing about Anderson is that he is very skilled when it comes to the commercial aspect of the industry. At this time, he heads his own label, Joe Anderson, as well as working as a creative director for Lowe, who has been growing two-digit sales since his arrival.

The school was a challenge to Anderson: it was dyslexia, long before the deficit was addressed. "I think I have my unit through failure," he explains. "I missed 11 more, and when you fail at this early age, it's hard to face." All your friends go to school and you can not go there.

But now, her former artistic mentor, Rhonda Hutchinson, who is very excited to see Anderson returning early in her vacation in Spain, makes her presence enormous. Along with the art there is a big poster with her picture and many achievements printed on it, and Ronda talks excitedly about how she always thought she would be a fashion designer. "Once I said," Jonathan, what about fashion? "" Remember. "He looked at me, crossed his arms with this expression he does, said:" Are you real, miss? Everyone will think I'm great Jenny and Ren. "

During his childhood, Anderson wanted to be a veterinarian, but realized that "it would be canceled" if he did not have academic talent. His love for the animals was directed instead by the summer seasons spent on his grandfather's farm, which he described as "the best moments of my life", that is, even breaking foot-and-mouth in 2001, and more late and salmonella hits the chicken. "You certainly learn life and death very quickly in a farm," he says. "There are different ways to kill chickens."

Between the outbreaks of farm diseases and the problems that affected Northern Ireland during that period: "I remember when they flew in the main street Maggierville and passed it every day when they went to school. Childhood was characterized by mortality, but more appropriately by the ability to recover. Anderson's overwhelming, almost brutal resolve, his magnetic appeal to the uncomfortable reality, was clearly born from his formative experiences. "There's definitely something about growth in Ireland," he says. "Function, family, hardness, this left me."