Picture a 1970s, British suburban scene: an Marks & Spencer blouse with a delicate bow detail at the neck blows in the breeze on a washing line. Nosy neighbors living in rows of terraced houses peer at your clean laundry through picket fences. Well, that was the mood behind JW Anderson‘s autumn-winter 2024 collection. Jonathan Anderson is the absolute fashion mastermind when it comes to planting bizarre, irrational ideas and making them somehow desirable. Old-style English underwear and slippers. Grandpa coats. Even grandma’s gray hairdo became an avant-nostalgia accessory. “They’re hats!” he revealed. This collection certainly has to be read through an irony-tinged lens…

Collage by Edward Kanarecki.
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