For his debut at Dior, Jonathan Anderson labored with prolific textile artist Sheila Hicks to reimagine the home’s epochal Girl Dior bag with texture, utility, motion, and enjoyable. The luggage, which had been proven draped over shoulders or tucked below arms, their tassel particulars bouncing down the runway, sign that Anderson’s love of craft and collaboration proceed past his tenure at Loewe and onto his mantle at Dior. Hicks has lengthy been a font of inspiration for the style world, a incontrovertible fact that she’s properly conscious of. “Yearly, there’s one in all them,” she as soon as instructed The New Yorker of designers who cite her. Anderson, whom Hicks describes as an “artwork fanatic and collector,” was in the end drawn to Hicks’s ponytail motif—one she first exhibited in 1969. Over the course of three months, the pair “refined the association and integration of the ponytails into the Girl Dior, even rethinking its inside…reflecting Sheila’s consideration to each aesthetics and performance,” Anderson stated. How does this relate to Hicks’s work at giant? “It’s inextricably linked,” she stated. The result’s a creation emblematic of the shared values between Dior and Hicks, that are, in response to Anderson, “a deep curiosity for materials and type, a reverence for craftsmanship, and an avant-garde spirit grounded in historic data.”
Dior Males’s bag, worth upon request. (dior.com)
Connecting Threads
JW Anderson, Sheila Hicks, and Christian Dior.ESTROP. SWAN GALLET/WWD/PENSKE MEDIA. BETTMANN. ALL FROM GETTY IMAGES.
1947 Dior mannequin.SERGE BALKIN/CONDÉ NAST/GETTY IMAGES.
1928 Christian Dior cofounds an artwork gallery that shows works by Picasso.
1947 Dior holds his first trend present in Paris.
1957 Sheila Hicks receives her BFA from Yale and a Fulbright grant to review historical Andean weaving.
1958 After Dior’s demise, Yves Saint Laurent exhibits his first assortment as inventive director.
1960 MoMA is the primary muse- um to accumulate one in all Hicks’s works.
1984 Jonathan Anderson is born in Northern Eire.
Princess Diana.RICHARD CORKERY/NY DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES.
1995 French first girl Bernadette Chirac presents Princess Diana an unreleased Dior Chouchou bag. She carries it so typically, Dior renames it Girl Dior after her.
2005 Anderson graduates from the London School of Style.
2008 Anderson launches JW Anderson and begins his artwork assortment with a John Ward piece.
2010 “Sheila Hicks: 50 Years,” a retrospective, opens on the Addison Gallery of American Artwork.
Runway mannequin.RUNWAY: DANIELE OBERRAUCH/GORUNWAY.COM.
2013 Loewe hires Anderson as inventive director.
2017 Anderson inaugurates the Loewe Craft Prize.
2022 Hicks receives the Légion d’honneur.
2025 Anderson is appointed the primary inventive director of males’s, girls’s, and couture at Dior since Christian Dior himself.
2025 Anderson and Hicks collaborate on this purse, featured in his debut present.
