Puig-owned Jean Paul Gaultier has formally named Duran Lantink as its new artistic director. The appointment of the Dutch designer ends the Home of Jean Paul Gaultier’s collaborative period, which started after Mr. Gaultier stepped down from the model in 2020. When he did so, the model used couture as a platform for showcasing numerous designers’ visions of the JPG model. Some included, Glenn Martens, Haider Ackermann, Nicolas di Felice and Simone Rocha, who all offered their variations of Jean Paul Gaultier collections.
The model’s revival has seen a requirement for JPG amongst younger folks. Whereas the model shuttered its ready-to-wear line in 2014, the model stays aspirational, having solely proven solely high fashion runways through the previous decade. The high fashion displays enable the model to proceed its founders campy, dramatically constructed silhouettes. With collaboration from the likes of Lotta Volkova and Shayne Oliver Jean Paul Gaultier has been in a position to revive its RTW line.
Lantink’s appointment sees the designer as Jean Paul Gaultier’s first everlasting artistic director since Gaultier stepped down. Having skilled on the Gerritt Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam earlier than constructing his model, he shifted from conventional tailoring to upcycling deadstock and current materials and clothes, respiration new life into the by setting up new hybrid silhouettes. His breakout second was in 2018 when he designed a pair of “vagina” trousers for Janelle Monae in her “PYNK” video. He has been acknowledged by the British Council and received the Andam Style Award, the 2025 Woolmark Prize and LVMH’s 2024 Karl Lagerfeld prize. Together with his personal model, Duran Lantink joined the Paris RTW calendar in October 2023. His most up-to-date Fall/Winter 2025 present bared all of it with a viral latex prime that took the web by storm.
With a stamp of approval from Mr. Gaultier himself, who mentioned of Lantink’s appointment, “I see in him the power, audacity, and playful spirit by vogue that I had at first of my very own journey: the brand new «enfant horrible» of vogue. Welcome, Duran.” Lantink shares, “I think about Jean Paul Gaultier a genius and a part of a era that kicked down doorways, so folks like us can stroll by them freely and be who we’re with out apology. Getting into the function of Artistic Director is a real honor. To me, Gaultier represents the last word home of artistic spirit and savoir-faire. It’s provocative, and repeatedly pushing boundaries. It’s the model that brings collectively completely different disciplines round vogue to create cultural actions, altering the language of garments and the way we put on them within the streets.”
Duran Lantink’s first RTW assortment for Jean Paul Gaultier shall be revealed throughout Paris Style Week on September 25 and his debut high fashion assortment will unveil on January 2026.
