In March 2025, at Paris Fashion Week, LOEWE unveiled a collection that felt less like a runway and more like an encounter with modern art. The Autumn Winter 2025 collection, conceived by creative director Jonathan Anderson, one of his last before he joined Dior, took inspiration from one of the 20th century’s most influential creative duos: Josef and Anni Albers.

In collaboration with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Anderson has crafted a collection where art and fashion seamlessly converge. Loom-woven coats echo the tactile sophistication of Anni’s textiles, while screen-printed skirts reference her pioneering approach to pattern and structure. Across accessories and ready-to-wear, Anderson pays homage to Josef’s luminous Homage to the Square series, reimagining its radiant geometry on Loewe’s iconic Puzzle, Flamenco, and Amazona bags.

The collection becomes a study in contrasts: precision and fluidity, surface and depth, tradition and experimentation. It is both a tribute to the Albers’ enduring legacy and a continuation of Loewe’s exploration of craft as a living, evolving language.

Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the most influential abstract painters and art teachers of the twentieth century. Albers’s artistic career, which bridged European and American Modernism, consisted mainly of a tightly focused investigation into the perceptual properties of color and spatial relationships. Working with simple geometric forms, Albers sought to produce the effects of chromatic interaction, in which the visual perception of a color is affected by the hues adjacent to it. Albers’s precise application of color also created plays of space and depth, as the planar colored shapes that make up the majority of his works appear to either recede into or protrude out of the picture plane.

Known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings, weavings, and designs, Anni Albers (née Annelise Fleischmann; 1899–1994) is considered one of the most important abstract artists of the twentieth century, as well as an influential designer, printmaker, and educator. Across the breadth of her career, she combined a deep and intuitive understanding of materials and process with her inventive and visually engaging exploration of form and colour.

From August 28, the LOEWE collection will be available worldwide, both in stores and on loewe.com, inviting clients to bring elements of the Albers’ radical modernism into daily life.

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