Jess Cartner-Morley

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Morwenna Ferrier |Jess Cartner-Morley

Long before the designer Jonathan Anderson stepped down from his role at Loewe in March, it was rumoured he would be heading for Dior. So when it was finally announced – six months after Dior’s menswear designer left, and four days after its womenswear head, Maria Grazia Chiuri, showed a collection in Rome – it surprised no one. Yet Anderson’s newfound position at luxury’s centre of gravity still sets Dior, a grand fashion institution, careering down an experimental path.

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Jess Cartner-Morley

Jonathan Anderson has been announced as the first ever creative director for men’s, women’s and couture collections at Dior, bringing to an end speculation about the luxury brand’s future. The 40-year-old rugby player’s son, from County Derry in Northern Ireland, will be the first designer to hold complete creative control of the fashion house since Christian Dior. Delphine Arnault, the chair and chief executive of Dior, described Anderson as “the most talented designer of his generation”.

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Jess Cartner-Morley

I try to be realistic about what people will spend when I do these edits. When we’re shopping and see something we like, the first thing almost all of us do is look at the price. What with money not growing on trees and all that. If I see something nice in a shop, then check the tag and find it to be out of my budget (or just overpriced), I move swiftly on.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jess Cartner-Morley

What you see here is a newfangled invention. The beach dress – specifically designed to turn your swimsuit into an outfit you can wear to lunch – is a wardrobe category that didn’t really exist until about a decade ago. I mean, obviously, it was not unknown to wear your bikini as undies en route to the beach. But this was a DIY form of outfit-wrangling, a way of fudging the awkward transition from swimwear to actual clothes without resorting to changing underneath a towel.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jess Cartner-Morley

Dior’s first catwalk show in Rome was a night of high drama on and off the catwalk that left the fashion industry with a cliffhanger ending. Borrowing the original working title of Federico Fellini’s film 8 ½, Maria Grazia Chiuri, designer of Dior since 2016, called it “The Beautiful Confusion.”She was talking about Rome, with its heady jumble of art, culture, faith and mopeds, and about a collection in which haute couture pieces were mixed with theatrical costumes.