(Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, Mar 24, 2025”Steal, Adapt, Borrow” about Jonathan Anderson)

“In the context of hundreds of paintings rendering sumptuous fabrics, the paired canvases by Titian and Rubens of the Garden of Eden were especially suggestive: each artist had captured the very last moment when clothing was unnecessary. Before Eve bit into the forbidden fruit, nobody had ever felt obligated to fuss about fashion. ‘It is, ultimately, the dream,’ Anderson said, as we regarded Adam and Eve, their genitals obscured by a few strategically placed leaves. ‘It’s before any form of consumerism. Somehow, it’s, like, this is where we did not need it, until we decided we were not going to do what we were told. Maybe deep down there is an odd fantasy- would it just be better to be naked somehow?’