Looks like Jonathan Anderson never sleeps. His namesake label, JW Anderson, has unveiled its Spring/Summer 2027 lookbook, a project so immersed in process, people and craft that it feels less like a seasonal release and more like a glimpse inside the Irish designer’s own creative mind. Part campaign, part visual diary, the collection reads like a moodboard brought to life, where ideas, references and handwork converge with obsessive detail.
Since Anderson took JW Anderson back to basics, his seasons have built a consistent thesis: clothes as living objects, archives in constant remix, fashion treated as one ongoing craft project. Resort 2026 had Mackintosh furniture and Murano glass sitting next to twisted classics in Japanese denim and Irish linen. Spring/Summer 2027 follows that same logic and turns the volume up.
Shot by Heikki Kaski and styled by Benjamin Bruno, the lookbook brings together Anderson’s circle: art collector Ivor Braka, ceramicist Akiko Hirai, writer Dr James Fox and Dree Hemingway make their debut alongside familiar faces such as Archie Madekwe and Sophie Okonedo. Here, curation, as always, is the key point.
In the garments, Anderson keeps blurring the line between finished and almost finished: draped eveningwear is pinched into shape in one motion, denim reads pre-repaired, and camisoles hang as if they have just slipped off the shoulder. Boxy utility jackets, a remixed fold-over trouser, twist jeans, Donegal wool sweaters dotted with wildflowers and a Squirrel Clutch with crocheted nuts all lean into that tension between function and play.
Beyond clothing, the world expands into Mackintosh stools, Wedgwood mugs inspired by Etruscan pottery, a John Taylor Bell Foundry sleigh bell cast from a century-old mould, Cerith Wyn Evans wind chimes and Sunbeam Jackie parasols.
