Designer Jonathan Anderson continues to provoke us with looks that disrupt the reality we know in his new Resort 2024 collection.
The set and backstage were adorned with the massively inflated blue and white stripes of Cornishware, a style of ceramics that was once popular in the British Isles. “Conformity, things that are part of the home and become part of psychology… things that are around you and become part of you subconsciously,” Anderson said.
During the show, we saw rugby shirts (part of Anderson’s childhood) that were reinforced with blazer-style hips and presented in knit or rigid jersey. The fine-knit sweatshirts came with large V-shaped notches that were then trimmed. Some looks were woven in a nobly fabric inspired by the 1970s sofa in Anderson’s office. Schoolgirl shorts with an extra-wide leg. Sweaters and knit dresses that came with two reinforcements, filled knit panels that snaked diagonally across the front torso like the homemade spiral baskets that inspired Anderson. There were waxed knit shoes and waxed knit clothing in a mesh that vaguely resembled old-school fruit bags and foldable shopping bags.
Anderson estimated that around 70% of the collection consisted of knitwear. The most ingenious fabrics included tops that appeared to be made of balls of yarn. Anderson said, “Knitting has gone mad, and this is getting back to raw materials.”
Non-knit looks included clogs, crocodile shirts, pastel Miami shorts, collarless cropped shirts, asymmetrical striped hem dresses, and mid-length leather coats with tabard fronts, as well as a longer distressed leather trench coat.
Anderson’s purpose is to transform our perception through design, turning the mundane into the bold, the plain into the peculiar, and the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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