LOEWE

Craft and handiwork had always been at the forefront of Jonathan Anderson’s narrative at Loewe, but Spring/Summer ’20 saw the British designer take it to another level, redefining the Spanish house’s nomadic heroine with an ethereal touch. “I looked at the 16th and 17th centuries, where the craft was in the tiniest thing … where you had to rely on precision.” And precise, it was. Stripping pannier dresses to its core, femininity was explored in its entirety; diaphanous guipure lace was tailored in lieu of crisp cottons; billowing silks romanticised christening dresses; and whisper-thin chemises ushered in a new age of womanhood.