Fashion designer JW Anderson and father Willie Anderson discuss family values, fashion shows and what the designer was like as a child.
In this exclusive interview, fashion designer Jonathan Anderson and his father, Ulster and Ireland rugby great Willie Anderson, discuss family values and the rise ofGrowing up, I was never very good at rugby – I didn’t really enjoy it. I did a bit of swimming. I never felt a pressure to be sporty or anything like that; our household was never that kind of system.
I was always intrigued by the process of making things but the idea of becoming a fashion designer was very abstract to me. I remember at school the list of careers was a doctor, a dentist or a lawyer. Becoming an actor or a designer felt like you would be going into a line of poverty. In a weird way I compare myself to a captain of a team because you’re trying to influence people to do something.
The most challenging thing in mine and dad’s relationship is communication. I live in London, mum and dad live in Magherafelt. The difficult thing is actually spending time together and not having the guilt: you want to carve out time but I have to keep my business going and I work for a very large conglomerate in Paris.
As a child, Jonathan had a menagerie of animals; birds, cats, dogs, guinea pigs, hamsters – we even had a chinchilla. One day, we came home and there were two chinchillas because, it turns out, it was actually pregnant. Jonathan would disappear on his bike and the next thing he’d come back with a rooster or a hen, then we’d have eggs.
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