Tim Blanks

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

Jonathan Anderson’s decade-plus tenure at Loewe, which officially ends today, has been defined by two passions: craft and curation. They have shaped one of the most distinctive, radical voices in fashion. It has challenged all sorts of orthodoxies, foremost the relationship between form and function. What comes to mind for some reason are the porcelain plates Japanese ceramicist Takuro Kuwata inserted into dresses in the A/W 2020 collection. I think of the perennial Rei Kawakubo question — Why?

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Imran Amed |Tim Blanks

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1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

Facing the challenge of her new position as creative director of Givenchy, Sarah Burton had been asking herself the inevitable questions. What does Givenchy stand for? Where do I want to begin? Since Count Hubert himself retired in 1995, the house has bounced from pillar to post under owner LVMH. While it’s true that risks were taken with the creative directorship over the years, the designer churn also suggested the brand was less of a priority than its larger stablemates.

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

The mirrors that lined the walls of Haider Ackermann’s show venue on Wednesday night were subtly graffiti-ed with suggestions of deviance: it was easy to imagine provocative phrases, obscene drawings, phone numbers, hand prints… the sort of improvised decor you might find in a gamy club privé. This Versailles of Vice was inspired by a much younger Ackermann’s work experience in a nightclub in Antwerp’s red light district. Come dawn, the working girls would meet up to review the night’s adventures.

2 months ago | anothermag.com | Nadine Ijewere |Katie Shillingford |Tim Blanks |Styling Katie Shillingford

Fresh from her turn in Wicked, Cynthia Erivo speaks to Tim Blanks about why the film has opened up conversations about racism and queerness, ‘holding space’, and her deep bond with Ariana GrandePhotographyNadine IjewereStylingKatie ShillingfordTextTim Blanks Lead Image This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine: Our first meeting was chance.