In 2024, Jonathan Anderson joined a small but illustrious club: famed fashion designers who also headed the costume department on major feature films.
Like fellow fashion-to-costume designers Jean Paul Gaultier (“The Fifth Element”) or Patricia Field (“The Devil Wears Prada”), Anderson did not merely lend a memorable outfit to a movie project, as runway-world icons often do. He fully conceived, designed and fabricated the clothes for “Challengers” and “Queer,” the year’s two fantastic Luca Guadagnino films.
Anderson and Guadagnino first met in Italy in 2017. Guadagnino had just directed “Call Me By Your Name” and Anderson was the creative director of both Spanish house Loewe and his own eponymous line JW Anderson, two positions he still holds today.