Loewe Creative Direction Lineage

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez became Loewe’s named creative directors on 7 April 2025 — the first American duo to inherit the 180-year-old Madrid house directly from the man who designed the Puzzle bag, and the first co-leadership in a loewe creative direction lineage that runs in a straight line from an 1846 Madrid leather collective through Narciso Rodriguez, José Enrique Oña Selfa, Stuart Vevers and Jonathan Anderson. LVMH announced Anderson’s departure on 17 March 2025 after eleven years; the Proenza Schouler founders were confirmed a week later and staged their Spring/Summer 2026 debut in Paris in early October. The lineage is short — fewer than ten named creative directors in a century and a half — but each appointment has redefined what a 180-year-old Spanish leather house is allowed to be. ...