At the Fashion Awards on Monday night in the Royal Albert Hall, London, Dame Anna Wintour held court on the prime table in front of the stage where Colman Domingo was performing hosting duties. She was flanked by two of fashion’s biggest players. To her left, Delphine Arnault, the 50-year-old daughter of LVMH-owner Bernard Arnault and chief executive of Christian Dior Couture. On her right, Jonathan Anderson, the 41-year-old Northern Irish creative director of Dior and founder of the JW Anderson label. Wintour, notably, was wearing a Dior dress designed by him. Anderson collected the designer of the year award – for the third year in a row. After more than 10 years as creative director of Loewe, from 2013 to 2024, he is the first designer to take on both Dior’s men’s and women’s collections.