British Fashion Awards 2015: JW Anderson wins menswear and womenswear designer of the year
Jonathan “JW” Anderson scooped both menswear and womenswear designer of the year at last night's British Fashion Awards.
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Your support makes all the difference.The old saying goes that a jack of all trades is a master of none: but don’t tell that to Jonathan “JW” Anderson, who last night scooped the two most prestigious prizes of the British Fashion Awards - menswear and womenswear designer of the year.
It’s the first time they’ve been awarded to the same recipient, which will no doubt give Anderson cause for celebration. On the one hand because he forged his name with progressive, occasionally perverse menswear (he’s designed platform shoes, ruffled skorts and boob-tubes - for him - before); on the other, because he likes to forge a path ahead of everyone else.
This duo of awards caps a stellar year for the barely 31 year-old Irish-born Anderson. His spring/summer collection was the stand-out of London fashion week, while his autumn/winter 2015 show back in February ignited an eighties redux that has influenced fellow designers and the high street. It helped, of course, that he had the chance to reiterate his point of view for the Spanish leather-house Loewe in Paris, where Anderson does double-duty as creative director. He’s one of London’s most prolific talents.
He’s also ferociously competitive, which he sees as healthy: his father is Willie Anderson, a former rugby international, and Anderson once told me that the worlds of sport and fashion aren’t so different. “Sports people are extremely competitive - to win. And in fashion, when you see someone do something brilliant it drives you to do something better… to keep outdoing yourself.”
Full list of winners:
Emerging Womenswear Designer: Thomas Tait
Emerging Menswear Designer: Grace Wales Bonner
Emerging Accessory Designer: Jordan Askill
Red Carpet: Tom Ford
Model: Jourdan Dunn
Outstanding Achievement: Karl Lagerfeld
Creative Campaign: Burberry
International Designer: Alessandro Michele for Gucci
New Establishment Designer: Mary Katrantzou
Establishment Designer: Erdem
Brand: Stella McCartney
Isabella Blow Award For Fashion Creator: Nick Knight OBE
British Style – Fashion Innovator: FKA twigs
British Style - Red Carpet Ambassador: Gwendoline Christie
Accessory Designer: Charlotte Olympia
Menswear Designer: J.W.Anderson
Womenswear Designer: J.W.Anderson
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