Like recent offerings from Prada and Anderson’s own JW Anderson, there was a stiffness to the collection. The clothes didn’t so much move with the body, but were placed upon it. Like the rubber clothes we once dressed our Polly Pockets in – a reference Anderson cited for his SS23 collection – georgette dresses, hoop skirts and leather trenches were deliberately rigid on the body, fine wire built in, giving the looks a puppet-like sense of humour. As always, it was fresh, fun, wearable, and included hints of one of Anderson’s greatest loves: art.
Photography Jamie-Maree Shipton
