Packing for Burning Man, or maybe a summer time jaunt to Mars?
Duran Lantink has you lined with a Jean Paul Gaultier debut stuffed with futuristic pneumatic silhouettes that appeared proper out of a sci-fi fever dream — or no matter occurred within the antechamber to his present within the bowels of the Musée du Quai Branly, with its lengthy bar strewn with empty Champagne glasses, bottles of spirits and gadgets left behind.
The present opened with a silhouette that appeared just like the love little one of Gaultier’s well-known cone bra and the Dutch designer’s bumper silhouettes. Then got here futuristic bodysuits minimize excessive on the leg; robes that appeared to defy gravity by overlaying solely the breasts and hips on the entrance; a midriff-baring bisected trenchcoat, and a plethora trompe-l’oeil tops and leggings. Some depicted bushy our bodies, cartoonish organs or with tattoos printed in 3D on their floor. Others have been emblazoned with the Junior Gaultier label after which Lantink named his debut providing.
At a preview, he advised WWD he’d eschewed diving into the archives, as a substitute “creating [a] fantasy of all these recollections I’ve from Gaultier and twisted them into how I feel it will look at this time.”
Thrown within the combine was a guide he’d found as a rave-obsessed child — Dutch photographer Cleo Campert’s “Het RoXY Archief, 1988–1999,” which chronicled the now-defunct legendary Amsterdam membership.
Between the liberty he felt within the pictures, which featured many partygoers sporting the Junior Gaultier line, it had him fascinated about how folks rework for night time life, “not essentially one thing that you’d see on the street.”
It was definitely exhausting to think about a lot of the spring lineup out and about however items with potential have been dotted all through. Amongst them have been these aforementioned printed tops and leggings, jackets with hems curling up in a nod to sailor hats, lengthy robes and trousers with curviliear waistbands. Equipment, which included sun shades with lenses that appeared to drift away from the face, have been additionally hanging.
Lantink has simply slipped into the Breton prime of the home’s namesake designer. Some changes are to be anticipated.
