Dutch designer Duran Lantink has been appointed as the new creative director of the Puig-owned French fashion house, Jean Paul Gaultier. Lantink’s first ready-to-wear collection will be presented during Paris Fashion Week in September 2025.
Jean Paul Gaultier
The decision to name Duran Lantink as the new Creative Director of Jean Paul Gaultier is monumental as he is the first successor to iconic designer Jean Paul Gaultier himself—famous in fashion history for his avant garde runway collections that masterfully combined theatricality and couture technique.
“I see in him the energy, the daring and the playful spirit in fashion that I had at the beginning of my own journey; the new enfant terrible in fashion. Welcome, Duran,” said Jean Paul Gaultier in a statement on Instagram.
The Dutch designer is recognised for his innovative approach, which focuses on regenerative design, heritage craftsmanship and contemporary innovation. He recently won the International Woolmark Prize 2025, with the collection hand-knitted by a team of twelve Dutch artisans, Duran’s designs revive time-honoured craftsmanship through a collaborative, community-driven process. With innovations such as 3D reconstructed knitwear, Duran’s designs unite craftsmanship, sustainability and innovation.
“I see Jean Paul Gaultier as a genius and part of a generation that kicked down doors so that people like us can walk through them and be who we are. It is an honour for me to take on the role of creative director,” said Lantink. His appointment comes after several notable designers including Glenn Martens, Haider Ackermann, Nicolas di Felice and Simone Rocha collaborated with Jean Paul Gaultier for guest collections.
Who Is Duran Lantink?
A graduate of Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Duran Lantink deftly combines an avant-garde sensibility with circular practices. In 2019, he founded his eponymous label, which focuses on upcycling. Since then, he has made custom designs for Beyonce, Billie Eilish, City Girls, Doja Cat, Lizzo, Grimes, Janelle Monae, and Solange.
In October 2023, Lantink debuted on the official schedule of Paris Fashion Week, featuring 39 looks brought to life through merging bespoke three-dimensional sculpting techniques with traditional handiwork. Technology plays a pivotal role in the brand presentations. Its digital fashion show was filmed and attended solely by drones; receiving praise for its striking commentary on access and excess in the fashion industry.
Exclusive and capsule collections have been sold to retailers such as H. Lorenzo Los Angeles, JOYCE Hong Kong, Concrete Amsterdam, and Browns London. In recent years, he’s also received fashion’s highest honours, including the ANDAM Special Prize 2023 and LVMH’s Karl Lagerfeld Special Jury Prize 2024. His creations reside at the MET Costume Institute, Victoria and Albert Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Centraal Museum Utrecht.
Duran Lantink wins The Woolmark Prize 2025
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier has been creating inclusive fashion since 1976. From growing up in the suburbs, his extraordinary destiny has seen him become one of the greatest couturiers in the world. “I love to blend clothes, people, social classes, genres… and have fun with it“, he says. That said, Jean Paul Gaultier focused on inclusivity, diversity and a world in which people of every colour, shape and identity are celebrated! And, he took pleasure in shaking things up!
His corsets aren’t hidden beneath clothes… they are the clothes. The skirt also does away with convention, proudly taking its place in the masculine wardrobe. Jean Paul Gaultier changes the course of everything and everyone! He’s put staff on the catwalk, as well as friends, neighbours, fashion editors and people scouted in the street. “My eccentricity has become my guide” is his mantra.
In 1993, Jean Paul Gaultier created his first fragrance, Classique. Its masculine alter ego, Le Male, with fresh notes of lavender and mint, is seriously sexy! In 1996, Jean Paul Gaultier reinvented Haute Couture by combining different genres, cultures and materials; some pieces require hundreds of hours of work and rare craftsmanship techniques to make. In 2014, Gaultier announced that he would be shuttering his ready-to-wear and menswear collections to focus on his couture line.
Per BoF: “Gaultier launched his highly regarded haute couture line in 1997. In couture, the designer was able to freely express the scope and range of his aesthetic, drawing inspiration from radically divergent cultures — from imperial India to Hasidic Judaism — to critical acclaim. It was as a result of this success that Hermès hired Gaultier as creative director. His first fragrance, Classique was introduced in 1993, followed by Le Mâle two years later.”
Jean Paul Gaultier has dressed some of the biggest names in pop culture such as Madonna, Mylène Farmer and Kylie Minogue. On the big screen, he has created costumes for films by Pedro Almodóvar, Luc Besson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Today, a new generation of icons is joining the extended JPG family. Among them: Dua Lipa, Christine and the Queens, Lil Nas X, and Kim Kardashian.
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