The Revenge of Abstraction on Fashion’s Catwalks

“Form as style”: This is how Duran Lantink describes his Autumn/Winter 2025 collection, staged in a rive gauche office space during Paris Fashion Week. Streaming between cubicles in a beige brave new world, silhouettes emerge as if cut to size for an urban jungle. Blending animal prints (the collection is titled “Duranimal”) and protheses, the Flemish designer plays a new game of construction and trompe l’oeil textile cloning.

Lantink’s research is often informed by upcycling,…