Jean Paul Gaultier names Duran Lantink new permanent creative chief for RTW, couture

Jean Paul Gaultier is gearing up to make a bigger impact on both ready-to-wear and couture with owner Puig naming Duran Lantink as its permanent creative director. Duran Lantink. Photo by Walter Pfeiffer – DR The new creative chief’s first RTW collection for the label will be for SS26, showing in September. The equivalent couture […]

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Jean-Paul Gaultier haute couture by Simon Rocha

Talk about a new entente cordiale. A meeting of the enfant terrible of Paris fashion Jean-Paul Gaultier and the high priestess of tough romanticism, Irish-born Simon Rocha, in a haute couture collection of exceptional quality and creativity. See catwalkJean Paul Gaultier – Spring-Summer2024 – Haute Couture – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Rocha riffing precisely […]

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Composite cool and assembled attitude

Few designers will have as much impact this season, for men or women, as Chitose Abe, whose Sunday afternoon show in Paris was a smash hit of composite cool and assembled attitude. See catwalkSacai – Fall-Winter2024 – 2025 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Staged inside the Carreau du Temple, a late 19th-century […]

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