PARIS – Jonathan Anderson is Kim Jones‘ successor at Dior Males and can current his first assortment throughout Paris Vogue Week in June, Bernard Arnault introduced on the LVMH annual shareholders assembly on Thursday.
The chairman and chief government officer of the French luxurious big was responding to a query from a shareholder about who would succeed Jones, who resigned from the function final January after an eventful seven-year tenure.
This marks the primary time LVMH has made official that Anderson has a brand new function within the group since stepping down from Loewe final month after an acclaimed 11-year tenure.
Arnault didn’t elaborate additional, regardless of widespread hypothesis Anderson may additionally take over the ladies’s division at Dior, at present led by Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Throughout the assembly, moderately uneventful regardless of the weak first-quarter numbers LVMH reported on Monday, Arnault gave shoutouts to the group’s new designer recruits in 2024: Sarah Burton at Givenchy, Michael Rider at Celine, and Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCullough for Loewe.
He additionally talked about Chiuri and the pre-fall 2025 assortment she simply paraded in Kyoto, plus Nicolas Ghesquière and Pharrell Williams, creative director of ladies’s and males’s collections at Louis Vuitton respectively, plus Victoire de Castellane, Dior’s longtime designer of effective jewellery collections, touting “sensational” gross sales of her most up-to-date excessive jewellery providing proven in Florence.
Europe’s luxurious teams have been below stress from buyers to kickstart enterprise with new creativity as a increase in enterprise within the post-COVID interval has fizzled.
Anderson reworked Loewe from a small, respected Spanish leather-based home right into a vibrant world luxurious model steeped in modern tradition.
His daring designs, and intense deal with craftsmanship helped catapult the dimensions of the Loewe enterprise, with revenues multiplying by greater than seven instances over his tenure to method 2 billion euros, market sources estimate.
Information of Anderson’s new place confirms earlier WWD reviews that he had begun engaged on the Dior males’s spring 2026 assortment.
Chiuri has helmed the model’s womenswear collections since 2016.
