Special Edition: Jonathan Anderson Says, ‘If It Feels Fake, I Don’t Want It’
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The creative director of JW Anderson and Loewe talks to BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks about the need for greater transparency in the fashion industry.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that's what's so fantastic in tragedy is that it can only be better. |
| 0:15.0 | We got dislocated from nature, and I guess that means we got dislocated from our humanity in a way as well. It's this idea that fashion is part of the creative landscape, as much as architecture and art or dance. |
| 0:28.6 | For me, it's all like a visceral output that kind of makes you feel connected in your moment. |
| 0:35.6 | Leading up to this, I think we probably should have seen it because we weren't connected in your moment. Leading up to this, I think we probably should have seen it because we weren't connected |
| 0:39.9 | in a moment. |
| 0:43.5 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to this |
| 0:48.2 | week's episode of the BOF podcast. |
| 0:50.8 | This week on BOF Live, Tim Blank sat down with the celebrated designer Jonathan Anderson, |
| 0:57.0 | creative director of Luevae and his own label, J.W Anderson, to talk about what it's like |
| 1:02.7 | being a creative director in the midst of a global pandemic. Here's Jonathan Anderson, Inside Fashion. |
| 1:13.1 | Hello, everyone. This is BOF Live. I'm Tim Blanks, and today we're talking to Jonathan Anderson, |
| 1:18.9 | whose perspective on what human beings are capable of has always been one of my favorite, my favorite things to explore in fashion. |
| 1:30.7 | And I'm mean by that, that he is a disciple of craft and artisanship. |
| 1:36.1 | And I think that in these times, I feel more and more people are responding to that idea. |
| 1:41.9 | But first of all, I want to find out where Jonathan is and where he has been in lockdown |
| 1:45.6 | and how he has been managing it. |
| 1:47.3 | Hi, Tim. How are you? |
| 1:50.4 | I'm in London. |
| 1:51.6 | I'm in my house in London. |
| 1:53.3 | Being myself at home as anyone, everyone else is, it's a trip. |
| 1:58.8 | Let's put it that way. |
| 1:59.7 | But I think as weeks go on, I think it's becoming more of a worthwhile trip to be on. |
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