Three guys wearing the JW Anderson S/S 2015 collection. These are cap-sleeve landscape loose fitting knit tops in earthy colours.
(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

It has been a winding road for Jonathan Anderson, who could today be considered fashion's gender-bending provocateur made good. Poised to reveal his first designs for Loewe in Paris this month, he chose a rather bucolic and British opening vision for the JW Anderson S/S 2015 men's show, translating the dense tapestry landscapes of RCA textile designer John Allen into a trilogy of cap-sleeve knit tops. They made an enticing graphic appetiser for the dissected tailoring and knitwear looks that followed - garments draped or abbreviated to reveal shoulders, midriffs, or the small of the back. Anderson credited the 'personality of the bourgeois woman' for those sensual abstractions, which were wrought out on shawl collar blazers, knit tank tops and open-necked wrap blouses all perched on loose, straight trousers. From striped silk twills to mealy cotton cable knit and flashes of tomato and violet wool, both Anderson's colour palette and textiles were inviting and varied - in what could be his most cohesive and commercial offer to date.

Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans

Three guys wearing the JW Anderson S/S 2015 collection. On the left the guy is wearing a beige overcoat with a matching scarf. Next to him, the guy is wearing a gray overcoat with matching scarf. On the right, the guy is wearing a beige jacket with one button.

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Four guys wearing the JW Anderson S/S 2015 collection. On the left the guy is wearing a blue and gray one piece. Next to him the guy is wearing a black off the shoulder draped garment. The guy next to him is wearing a red off the shoulder top with gray pants and on the right is a guy wearing a purple top.

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Three guys wearing the JW Anderson S/S 2015 collection. They are all wearing the same style shirt with a white collar. The first guy is wearing a yellow and beige shirt. The middle guy is wearing a blue and green shirt and the guy on the right is wearing red and blue shirt.

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Two guys wearing the JW Anderson S/S 2015 collection. On the left, the guy is wearing a brown and white striped garment with a scarf/tie as part of the garment. Next to him a guy walking past is wearing an off the shoulder black garment

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)