On December 2, 2025, Jonathan Anderson took home Designer of the Year at The Fashion Awards for the third consecutive year, a streak that now feels less like surprise and more like inevitability.
On December 2, 2025, Jonathan Anderson took home Designer of the Year at The Fashion Awards for the third consecutive year, a streak that now feels less like surprise and more like inevitability.
December 2, 2025
On December 2, 2025, Jonathan Anderson took home Designer of the Year at The Fashion Awards for the third consecutive year, a streak that now feels less like surprise and more like inevitability.
Jonathan Anderson is that rare type of designer, a true intellectual of fashion, who treats clothing not just as product, but as ideas, puzzles, and cultural artifacts waiting to be re-coded.
This year’s win honored his work as creative director of both Dior’s menswear and womenswear, a role he took on with razor-sharp clarity. Jonathan Anderson designs like someone who reads everything, notices everything, and absorbs the world with a sponge-like curiosity.
He sees humour in construction, poetry in silhouette, and meaning in materials other designers would ignore. His references stretch from art history to British subcultures to Spanish craft traditions, yet they never feel academic; he reshapes them into something tender, strange, and modern.
What people inside the industry admire most, and what this award acknowledges is his stamina. Jonathan Anderson works at a pace that would flatten most designers: juggling Loewe, JW Anderson, museum collaborations, exhibitions, and constant experimentation. Yet he never looks tired. Instead, he approaches fashion like a long-distance runner: controlled, relentless, steady, with a mind that refuses to coast or repeat itself. Every season feels like he’s starting from zero and building a new language from scratch.
Jonathan Anderson inspires because he isn’t afraid to make fashion difficult, or funny, or emotional. He pushes audiences to pay attention, to think harder, to feel something. His shows are essays in motion. And the respect he commands from peers, editors, artists, and students stems from that intellectual bravery.
On this day, his third consecutive win isn’t just another trophy on a shelf, it’s a reminder of why fashion still needs thinkers, dreamers, and relentless makers. Jonathan Anderson is all three.
