PARIS — Jean Paul Gaultier has tapped Duran Lantink to be its creative director, the Puig-owned brand confirmed Tuesday.
The move makes the Dutch designer — whose puffy, body-reshaping silhouettes and distorted prints have made him a breakout fashion star — the first-ever successor to the label’s namesake founder, who became famous in the 1980s for blending pop theatricality and gender-fluid, inclusive storytelling with rigorous couture technique.
Lantink will debut his vision for Jean…

