Last year, Jonathan Anderson announced that his namesake label would undergo a rebrand. In light of the designer’s appointment at the helm of Dior, JW Anderson was reimagined as a more personal space – one that unites the designer’s love for craft, collecting, curating and design. This season, those passions are realised across a collection of ready-to-wear, shoes, accessories, and objects rooted in process and people. In the words of Anderson, “The idea is to weave together things – and people – I like and I would like to have around me.”

Presented as a lookbook shot by Heikki Kaski, the collection features a cast of valued friends of the house and long-time collaborators. A few notable names on Anderson’s call sheet include actor  – and HERO Winter Annual cover star – Daryl McCormack, pop’s princess Kylie Minogue, supermodel Mona Tougaard, writer Justin Kuritzkes and designer Marc Kalman.

Anderson’s FW26 ready-to-wear offering places the art of craftsmanship at its core, with crochet built from iterations of lace or wool and varying forms of draping masking the illusion of volume and warped silhouettes. Dresses morph from delicate, sweeping forms in monochromatic hues to tight-fitting gowns ruched at the sides or adorned with graphic bananas. The staples for which Anderson became best known – bombers, knotted dresses, kitch knitwear – arrive with new spirit, in contrasting primary colours or adorned with characters sourced from vintage ephemera. Sticking true to its design heritage, each piece exudes a sense of home, featuring knitwear made in Ireland or Scotland, denim prepared in Japan, and silk woven in England.

Meanwhile, this season’s objects are ideated in collaboration with renowned artists and artisans. Bronze peach paperweights designed by Anderson and Luca Guadagnino, ceramics handcrafted by Akiko Hirai, textiles by Polly Lyster’s company The Dyeworks and chairs and tables by Mac Collins are just some of the characteristically crafty pieces punctuating JW’s latest collection.