Jean Paul Gaultier’s Le Vestiaire 1 Raids The Archive With A Wink
Jean Paul Gaultier is back in the wardrobe, and the door is swinging open with the kind of mischief only this house can make look polished.
For Pre-Spring 2027, Duran Lantink steps into the forever-legacy label with Le Vestiaire 1, a collection that pulls from Gaultier’s archive without treating it like something locked behind museum glass.
The starting point has serious fashion lore energy: analogue fitting photographs shot by Jean Paul Gaultier himself, tied to the house’s 1997 archive, are pushed into a new trompe-l’œil language. Translation: the past is not just referenced. It is printed, stretched, flipped, worn, and given a fresh little strut.
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Into the Gaultier archive remix? Think sailor stripes, biker gloss, trompe-l’œil attitude, sharp fragrance, and the kind of fashion wink that refuses to behave.
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Lantink keeps the Gaultier vocabulary deliciously recognizable: sailor, military, and biker references move through the collection, while medals, chevrons, high collars, anchor details, and warped proportions make the clothes feel like they know exactly where they came from and exactly where they are going next.
That is the best part here. Le Vestiaire 1 is not nostalgia wearing perfume and hoping nobody notices. It is more alive than that. The collection plays with the Gaultier codes like a dress-up box for adults: familiar pieces, fresh proportions, and just enough surreal twist to keep the mirror interesting.
The house’s signature humor lands in the shape-shifting details: blown-up trompe-l’œil effects, a padded bomber dress, an inverted lapel skirt, and an upside-down slip-shirt dress all push the idea of wardrobe staples into stranger, smarter, more Gaultier territory.
And with Duran Lantink now steering the house’s new chapter, that tension makes sense. He has the subversive instinct. Gaultier has the archive. Together, Le Vestiaire 1 feels like a fitting-room séance with better tailoring.
Jean Paul Gaultier Pre-Spring 2027, Le Vestiaire 1
A closer look at Jean Paul Gaultier Pre-Spring 2027, where Duran Lantink twists house codes through archive memory and new proportion play.
Gallery: Jean Paul Gaultier Pre-Spring 2027, Le Vestiaire 1. Images courtesy of Jean Paul Gaultier / FY! Magazine.
Source note: Collection details and image context via FY! Magazine, with creative-director context via Puig.
