Fashion designer Jonathan Anderson has stepped down as the creative director of Spanish luxury fashion house Loewe after 11 years. Anderson, from Magherafelt in County Londonderry, is also the founder of his own label, JW Anderson.

The Irish designer turned Loewe into fashion’s most coveted brand by radically reinterpreting classic garments. Now he seems poised to make over Dior.

LVMH label Loewe said on Monday that creative director Jonathan Anderson was leaving the Spanish luxury house after 11 years in the role. Its statement did not say who was taking over from the British designer or where he was going,