Duran Lantink Reveals His Fantasy World for Jean Paul Gaultier Today—Follow Along with Vogue Editors
What s perhaps the most eventful weekend in Paris Fashion Week history continues, with the debut of Duran Lantink at the storied maison of Jean Paul Gaultier. In conversation with Nicole Phelps on The Run-Through podcast earlier this week, the Dutch designer, who is only 38, explained his approach for his first collection: “We started directly doing fittings,” he said. “I’m not entering the archive, I’m keeping it closed for now,” he says. “I want to go in, but first I kind of want to imagine what’s behind that door and create a fantasy world that way.” Follow along with us as he unveils that fantasy world today.
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I find Duran s examination of gender fascinating—overt, loud, abrasive, and current. I think the output needs to be, excuse the pun, fleshed out a bit more. But I m here for moving away from the idea of neutrality as solely unisex or androgynous and considering the very wide scope of gender by embracing and underscoring its tropes: what is masculine, what is feminine, and what happens when we—pardon my French here—fuck around with those rules and find out? The truth: nothing happens! We just have a little more fun, and see a little more of ourselves. Now that is modern and contemporary, in the very honest and transgressive spirit of Jean Paul Gaultier.
I don t find it gender neutral at all, rather celebratory and emphasizing of gender. A BODY POSITIVE collection.
