Cryptic. JW Anderson SS25

In his spring-summer 2025 collection, Jonathan Anderson dissects the meaning – and substance – of clothes. The cuts are in-your-face, the textures are exaggerated in their tactility, the shapes go from super-slim to super-big. “I think where we are today is that there needs to be a kind of narrowing of things while the world is transitioning. I think fashion needs to kind of refocus somehow, because we’re in a moment where we, the industry, have to look at ourselves.” JW Anderson takes cues from surrealism, but with a realistic grit. Yet there’s a feeling of deliberate palette cleanse, a sense of reduction. “It’s more like this idea of starting from a blank page,” he said. “Where is the next decade going, and how do we work with it?” Cryptic.