Yesterday in London, JW Anderson unveiled a collaboration that bridges queer art and fashion. Partnering with Los Angeles–born artist Dean Sameshima, the collection translates the artist’s Anonymous series, first seen at the 2024 Venice Biennale, into a trio of limited-edition garments. Embroidery as both craft and delicious provocation.

Sameshima’s work, notably Anonymous Faggots (2024), marked one of the Biennale’s most searing interventions: a raw meditation on desire, shame, and the erasure of queer histories. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the installation confronted the politics of visibility through fragments of found imagery drawn from gay subcultures, underground press, and pre-internet intimacy. In JW Anderson’s hands, these images find new form, stitched across sweatshirts and knits, their once-clandestine codes rendered tactile and wearable.

The capsule, released on 17 October 2025, includes the ‘Anonymous Trade’ sweatshirt in navy, the ‘Anonymous Lovers’ sweatshirt in washed black, and the ‘Anonymous Faggots’ jumper in vivid yellow. Each piece bears raised embroidery that echoes Sameshima’s visual language of repetition and restraint, produced in Portugal from heavyweight cotton jersey.

“Created in collaboration with renowned artist Dean Sameshima, inspired by Anonymous, his series shown at the 2024 Venice Biennale,” reads the brand’s understated note.

Sameshima, born in Los Angeles in 1973, and long based between Berlin and Tokyo, has built a practice around the spaces queer people once occupied in secret: bathhouses, bookstores, clubs. His work, often mining found photography and coded language, reframes nostalgia as resistance. Anderson, meanwhile, has consistently blurred the boundaries between garment and artistry. The brilliant campaign features Ivan Ugrin, Luca Guadagnino and Oliver Sim.