JEAN PAUL GAULTIER FALL/WINTER 26
For his second collection as creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier, Duran Lantink takes a different approach to the house's signature experimentation. Moving away from the provocative proportions and revealing designs of his debut, the Fall/Winter 2026 collection places greater emphasis on tailoring, structure, and covered silhouettes. The collection brings together the house’s history of unconventional design and Lantink’s interest in pushing the boundaries of form, construction, and proportion.
Working primarily in darker tones, Lantink revisits familiar elements of Gaultier’s design language through a more technical approach. Traditional tailoring is reworked through unexpected details, including exaggerated shoulders, extended collars, and layered constructions that blur the line between formalwear and outerwear. Elsewhere, technical nylon, patterned knits, and reconstructed garments introduce a sportier dimension. Familiar Gaultier references also appear through corsetry, sculptural proportions, and playful reinterpretations of pieces from the house's archive.
Throughout the collection, Lantink works between contrasting ideas: historical and futuristic, masculine and feminine, tailored and experimental. Rather than repeating the approach of his debut, he offers another perspective on Jean Paul Gaultier's design language, continuing to explore how its established codes can be reworked for a new generation. The result is a collection that continues to build on Jean Paul Gaultier’s history of challenging traditional ideas of dress while establishing Lantink’s own direction for the house.