“It was fashionable 50 years ago and I think it will be fashionable in 50 years’ time,” says Rebecca Rickards, of the bold blue-and-white stripes that characterise her family’s pottery range, Cornishware, which turns 100 this year. The hand-painted stripes are a British homeware staple, a 20th-century design icon and now a fashion sensation - Cornishware made its Milan Fashion Week debut when Jonathan Anderson referenced the range for the SS24 show of his label JW Anderson. Rickards and the team prepared more than 500 teapots, mugs, cereal and pasta bowls for Anderson to use as invitations to the runway show, which played out atop a blue-and-white striped carpet.
“It was lovely seeing Cornishware step into the world of fashion, which it’s never done before,” says Rickards. “And it was wild to see bloggers and influencers dressed in blue and white stripes - you realised that the power of the Cornishware brand had filtered through.” - Financial Times
On Sunday, June 18, JW Anderson put on a runway show for its men's Spring/Summer 2024 and women's Resort 2024 collections. Though not as wild as phallic tees, the presentation had its fair share of Anderson's unconventionality and surprises. Hoodies, sweaters, and evening boasted deep V cutouts. Shorts' pockets awkwardly extended outward. Shirts came with both long and short sleeves. -
After a slew of surrealist-leaning collections, this season Jonathan Anderson took a new spin on everyday dress. Set inside a vast warehouse space in Milan, a procession of boxy rugby shirts, hoodies with exaggerated key-hole cut outs and woollen vests that jutted out like dresses, played out to a Frank Ocean-laced soundtrack.
Backstage, the designer - wearing Ireland’s new rugby shirt, in honour of his dad, former player Willie Anderson, with the show being held on Father’s Day - waxed lyrical about the “ease” of showing in the Italian fashion capital. It was a notion transferred to mini-dresses that hung from the body, seemingly light as air, and leather trenches which came in swollen proportions. His show notes spoke of “Clarity and directness, going askew”, with origami-style shirting peeling away from the body and tunic-style tops seemingly woven from carpets. At-home furnishings also inspired fringed knitted vests that looked like mops and structural tops made from an avalanche of yarn balls. “We’ve elaborated on things that are already ready-made,” said Anderson, cleverly re-analysing clothes and objects we’re exposed to in our day-to-day lives. In Anderson’s hands, suddenly, the mundane becomes magnificent. - 10 Magazine (Written By Christina Fragkou)
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