Loewe

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. ...

Jonathan Anderson is the first designer since Christian Dior himself, in 1946, to oversee Dior womenswear, menswear and haute couture from one office. The jonathan anderson lvmh trajectory — from the September 2013 deal that made him Loewe creative director and gave LVMH a minority stake in his independent JW Anderson label, to the April–June 2025 Dior appointments that consolidated three creative directorships under his name — is the most aggressive single-designer bet the group has placed in a generation. It runs across two brands (Loewe and Dior), one foundation prize, one curated museum show, and roughly twelve years. ...

Jongjin Park’s Strata of Illusion won the Loewe Craft Prize 2026 at National Gallery Singapore on 12 May with a paradox: a chair-shaped porcelain sculpture made from thousands of sheets of paper, folded and stacked into a block, then fired until the paper burned away and gravity warped the shell. Park, a 44-year-old Assistant Professor at Seoul Women’s University, took the €50,000 main prize and the silver trophy at a ceremony that drew the Loewe Foundation jury — fourteen judges including Deyan Sudjic, Patricia Urquiola, Frida Escobedo, Abraham Thomas and Loewe’s new co-creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez — to Singapore for the first time in the prize’s ten-year history. Two special mentions of €5,000 each went to Álvaro Catalán de Ocón with the Baba Tree Master Weavers of Ghana for Frafra Tapestry #2 (2024), and to Graziano Visintin for Collier (2025), a set of geometric gold necklaces inlaid with niello. The shape of the answer to “what won the Loewe Craft Prize 2026” is therefore not just a name but a method: paper as a kiln-fugitive substrate, porcelain slip as a skin, gravity as the final hand. ...