‘Challengers’: How Fashion Icon Jonathan Anderson Built ‘Power and Swagger’ Into Tennis Costumes

In 2024, Jonathan Anderson joined a small but illustrious club: famed fashion designers who also headed the costume department on major feature films.

Like fellow fashion-to-costume designers Jean Paul Gaultier (“The Fifth Element”) or Patricia Field (“The Devil Wears Prada”), Anderson did not merely lend a memorable outfit to a movie project, as runway-world icons often do. He fully conceived, designed and fabricated the clothes for “Challengers” and “Queer,” the year’s two fantastic Luca Guadagnino films.