Duran Landin is the new creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier

JEan-Paul Gaultier has appointed Duran Landink as a new creative director. The brand founded by the French stylist of the same name towards the end of the seventies and remained since 2015 without a stable creative director for the part Ready-to-wearannounced today the arrival of Landink, one of the most eclectic and provocative contemporary names.

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With a joint post published on the Instagram profiles of Jean-Paul Gaultier and Landink himself, it has been communicated that his first collection will be presented next September in Paris Ready-to-wear While in January 2026, always in Paris, his debut will take place Haute Couture.

For the Dutch designer, born in 1988 and winner of the 2025 edition of the prestigious International Woolmark Prize and of the Karl Lagerfeld Award to edition 2024 of LVMH PRIZEtherefore a role of total direction is expected, which therefore breaks the trend of the seasonal creative directors introduced by maison in recent years.

Duran Landin has always entrusted to social media a special message of thanks and gratitude towards the brand Sharing a personal shot: a photo that portrays him, at 11 years old, with a hat of Jean-Paul Gaultier. His first piece of a brand that, a handful of years later, has the honor of directing. «In him I see the energy, audacity and playful spirit with which I started: the new enfant terrible fashion, “said Gaultier enthusiastically, underlining the most imaginative aspect and outside the patterns that distinguishes Lanink’s style. A style that, combined with the history of such a revolutionary brand, will not fail to amaze.