The first ready-to-wear collection will be shown in Paris during Paris Fashion Week in September 2025. The Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture debut is scheduled for January 2026.

After an experimental cycle of collaborations entrusted to guest designers, the Jean Paul Gaultier fashion house is turning over a new leaf and entrusting the creative direction to Duran Lantink, the first permanent appointee since the founder&#39;s farewell show in 2020. His first ready-to-wear collection is expected for the women&#39;s fashion week in September 2025, while his debut in Haute Couture is scheduled for January 2026. A choice that marks a return to creative continuity, while maintaining the avant-garde spirit that has defined the visual vocabulary of the house since its inception. Jean Paul Gaultier, who in the 1980s was nicknamed the “enfant terrible” of French fashion, has always used transgression as a tool to push the boundaries of elegance. From the introduction of men’s skirts to couture fetishism, his career has been marked by a radical but profoundly sartorial vision. It is precisely this tension between provocation and savoir-faire that ideally links Gaultier to Lantink. Born in Amsterdam in 1987, Duran Lantink has made a name for himself with his subversive and sustainable approach, fusing archive materials and second-hand pieces into hybrid, edgy and conceptual creations. A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut, he has built a trajectory that challenges the traditional logic of the industry, often questioning the concept of exclusion in fashion. His name emerged strongly in 2019, when he dressed trans model Hunter Schafer for Vogue USA, marking a turning point in the imagery of fashion inclusivity. In his appointment statement, Gaultier expressed his enthusiasm with words that oscillate between affection and symbolic recognition: &quot;I see in him the energy, the audacity and the playful spirit with which I began my journey: the new enfant terrible of fashion. Welcome, Duran.&quot; Lantink, for his part, responded with deference, but without rhetoric: &quot;I consider Jean Paul Gaultier a genius, part of a generation that has broken down all barriers, allowing people like us to cross them freely and be who we are, without having to justify ourselves.&quot; The relationship between Gaultier and Lantink does not appear to be a break, but rather a transmission of code: the passage from an iconoclastic couturier to a designer who has made irreverence a method. At a time when many fashion houses are taking refuge in the predictability of heritage, Jean Paul Gaultier is still betting on the unpredictable.

Duran Lantink is the new permanent creative director of the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier

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