Duran Lantink has been named creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier, according to a press release from holding company Puig on Tuesday.
Creative direction for the label has been handled by guest creative directors since Jean Paul Gaultier retired from the runway in 2020. Lantink will be the first person to permanently succeed Gaultier since the brand's founding in 1982.
Gaultier, the designer, said in the release that Lantink has the energy, audacity and playful spirit that he had at the beginning of his own journey.
Lantink will debut his first haute-couture collection for the brand in January 2026.
“To me, Gaultier represents the ultimate house of creative spirit and savoir-faire,” Lantink said in the release. “It’s provocative, and continuously pushing boundaries. It’s the brand that brings together different disciplines around fashion to create cultural movements, changing the language of clothes and how we wear them in the streets.”
Lantink is creative director and CEO of his own namesake label. He’s been the recipient of the Karl Lagerfeld Special Jury Prize from LVMH and the International Woolmark Prize for rising fashion stars.
