Nine years ago in Madrid , Jonathan Anderson launched a project that would serve as the beating heart of his wildly influential 11-year tenure as creative director of Loewe : the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. An annual exhibition and competition that spotlights makers and artisans from around the world, it quickly became a foundational tenet of Anderson’s philosophy at Loewe. There is an emphasis both on the Spanish house’s rich legacy of craftsmanship, and the Northern Irish designer’s fascination with boldly warping those techniques into new and unexpected forms.

This week, the prize ceremony returned to Madrid—without Anderson, following the announcement in March that Proenza Schouler founders Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez would be taking the reins as creative directors o

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