After Jean Paul Gaultier retired from the runway in 2020, his Puig-owned namesake house initiated a rotating designer model, in which a guest talent created each couture collection. Chitose Abe, Glenn Martens, Olivier Rousteing, Haider Ackermann, Julien Dossena, Simone Rocha, Nicolas Di Felice and Ludovic de Saint Sernin have each taken on the gig.

Now, the brand is changing strategy: it has tapped Duran Lantink as creative director to lead both couture and ready-to-wear, bringing an end to the rotating model.

“I see in him the energy, audacity and playful spirit through fashion that I had at the beginning of my own journey: the new enfant terrible of fashion,” Gaultier said in a statement.