I remember listening to a podcast (either BoF or Matches) with him just after Covid and he deflected anything about his talent by talking about the artisans he worked with and how much he had learnt from them. It just made me admire him even more.
I found the T magazine profile of him really interesting, too. He strikes me as someone incredibly ambitious, but by his own standards. He’s not competing against other designers, he’s competing against himself. And I think that means that he’s not driven by insecurity, which shows in the work and how he approaches what ‘exclusivity’ means. It’s about setting the bar for design super high, not about excluding people.
I remember listening to a podcast (either BoF or Matches) with him just after Covid and he deflected anything about his talent by talking about the artisans he worked with and how much he had learnt from them. It just made me admire him even more.
I found the T magazine profile of him really interesting, too. He strikes me as someone incredibly ambitious, but by his own standards. He’s not competing against other designers, he’s competing against himself. And I think that means that he’s not driven by insecurity, which shows in the work and how he approaches what ‘exclusivity’ means. It’s about setting the bar for design super high, not about excluding people.
here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/17/t-magazine/jonathan-anderson-loewe.html