PARIS – Jonathan Anderson is Kim Jones‘ successor at Dior Men and will present his first collection during Paris Fashion Week in June, Bernard Arnault announced at the LVMH annual shareholders meeting on Thursday.
The chairman and chief executive officer of the French luxury giant was responding to a question from a shareholder about who would succeed Jones, who resigned from the role last January after an eventful seven-year tenure.
This marks the first time LVMH has made official that Anderson has a new role in the group since stepping down from Loewe last month after an acclaimed 11-year tenure.
Arnault did not elaborate further, despite widespread speculation Anderson may also take over the women’s department at Dior, currently led by Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Contacted by WWD, Dior issued a short press release saying Anderson was working on the spring 2026 men’s collection, which would be presented on June 27 at 2:30 p.m.
During the meeting, rather uneventful despite the weak first-quarter numbers LVMH reported on Monday, Arnault gave shoutouts to the group’s new designer recruits in 2024: Sarah Burton at Givenchy, Michael Rider at Celine, and Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCullough for Loewe.
He also mentioned Chiuri and the pre-fall 2025 collection she just paraded in Kyoto, plus Nicolas Ghesquière and Pharrell Williams, artistic director of women’s and men’s collections at Louis Vuitton respectively, plus Victoire de Castellane, Dior’s longtime designer of fine jewelry collections, touting “sensational” sales of her most recent high jewelry offering shown in Florence.
Europe’s luxury groups have been under pressure from investors to kickstart business with new creativity as a boom in business in the post-COVID period has fizzled.
Anderson transformed Loewe from a small, reputable Spanish leather house into a vibrant global luxury brand steeped in contemporary culture.
His daring designs, and intense focus on craftsmanship helped catapult the scale of the Loewe business, with revenues multiplying by more than seven times over his tenure to approach 2 billion euros, market sources estimate.
News of Anderson’s new position confirms previous WWD reports that he had begun working on the Dior men’s spring 2026 collection.
Chiuri has helmed the brand’s womenswear collections since 2016.
