It’s been a very eventful season of shows in Paris this month; we’ve already witnessed groundbreaking womenswear debuts from Dior ’s Jonathan Anderson and Loewe ’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. Tomorrow night, Duran Lantink , who only launched his namesake label in 2020, will present his first collection at Jean Paul Gaultier , a maison that put its ready-to-wear shows on pause after the retirement of its founder, and brought on guest designers to take on the couture collections. The announcement of Lantink as new creative director may have come as a surprise, but spiritually, the Dutch designer made perfect sense to continue writing Gaultier’s legacy.

He joins Vogue Runway’s Nicole Phelps to discuss his quick rise to the top, how he feels about other designers being influ

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