The Fall-Winter 2025-2026 Fashion Season, Set to Take Place in Sep Fer and October, promises to be Even More exciting Now that Dutch Designer Duran Lantink was appointed as creative director of the Jean Paul Gaultier Brand On Tuesday, April 15. He joined the ranks of new designs To significant posations in Recent Weeks: Jack McColough and Lazaro Hernandez At Loewe, Louise Trotter at Bottega Veneta, Matthieu Shoz in Chanel and Demon in Gucci. Jonathan Anderson is expected to, previously in Loewe, take over the creative direction in Dior.
Founded in 1976 by Jean Paul Gaultier, the designer’s brand described for a long time the “terrible enfant of fashion” established the guideline for the Parisian style of the eighties and ninety years: not conformist, which opens to the world, cheerful and provocation, while dominating, so -art of the trace, Soaloring. Gaultier, one of the most popular French designers, also helped spread French fashion throughout the world. Since 2014, the brand had retired from the calendar ready to use to focus on its haute couture activities.
The designer himself left his piece of scissors and needles, a festive farewell show at Théâtre du Châtelet in 2020. Since then, his haute couture collections have been reinvented every season by a guest of a guest of Heason, a guest of Heason, guest of Heason. Bason Basest, a Guest from Heason from a bason of a guest by Heason, a guest of Hison for a bason of a bason. The Japanese brand Sacai, was the first to assume the challenge in 2021. It was followed by Olivier Rousteing of Balmain, Glenn Martens de Y/Project, Julien Dosenna by Paco Rabanne, Nicolas Di Felice de Courrèges and finally Ludovic the Gaultier de Gaultier of Ludhages Saintnine in January.
Experimental approach to clothing
The arrival of Lantink marks the end of this collaborative era, with the 38 -year -old designer assuming all the roles, and takes the house to the calendar ready to use. Graduated in 2013 in Fashion and Textiles of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and with a mastery of the Sandberg Institute, also in Amsterdam, received in 2017, Lantink founded his own homonymous brand in 2019. He quickly stood out thanks to his tots his tots Tots Tots is his surface. Play with volumes, not hesitating to create protusions in the body through manipulation, or recycled materials, accentuating the hips of skirts or pants and mixing patterns and patterns easily. On April 2, he received the prestigious Woolmark award, created in 1953 by Woolmark Company, a promotion wool of the Australian organization.
“For me, Gaultier refers to the last house of the creative spirit and the Savoir Fair. It is provocative and continuously pushes the limits. It is the brand that brings together different disciplines on the subject of creation fashion, Langage of theingsings, Langage of Websingsings,” explained the Dutch designer in the statement announcing his appointment. “I see in him the energy, audacity and the playful spirit through the fashion I had at the beginning of my own trip: the new terrible fashion,” Gaultier replied.
In 2011, the Spanish group, owner of Paco Rabanne, Nina Ricci, Byredo and Dries Van Notten, the Jean Paul Gaultier brand benefits from the strong performance of the group, promoted in particular for their perfume and cosmetics activities. The Catalan company in fact recorded a two -digit growth in 2024, with its income reaching € 4.79 billion, 11% more than in 2023. The first Lantink collection for Jean Paul Gaultier, which is due in October 2025 in Paris or season.
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