Irish fashion designer Jonathan Anderson has been honored as one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2024.
Raised in Magherafelt, a town of about 8,800 people in Derry, Anderson is the son of Heather Buckley, a secondary school teacher, and rugby great Willie Anderson, who captained Ireland and Ulster in the '70s who went on to be a coach at Leinster under Matt Williams. "And then there was the time a man in a motorcycle helmet came into the pub where my brother worked and shot someone who was sitting at the bar in the head. That’s what things were like then. In the morning, my father would check his car before he started the engine, and we had to go through checkpoints to get to school."
Initially, Anderson pursued a career in acting and spent a year studying to be an actor at Washington D.C.’s Studio Theater when he was 18, mainly to " the hell out of Northern Ireland." The Derry-native took a leap of faith and launched his label J.W.Anderson in 2008 when he was just shy of turning 24 and was quickly singled out as “one to watch,” receiving sponsorship from the British Fashion Council’s NewGen committee in 2010.
His own label has seen similar success. In 2015, JW Anderson, made history by becoming the first to win both men’s and womenswear designer of the year at the British fashion awards.
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