Duran Lantink FW25 Is All in Good Taste
The provocative-first mindset takes on loud wild animal prints and a bare it all latex top for his self-titled show, “Duranimals.”
Duran Lantink was tits out and then some for its Fall/Winter 2025 runway show during Paris Fashion Week. Lantink was awarded the Karl Prize last year and in his self-titled show, “Duranimal,” the Amsterdam and Paris-based label brought the wild animals of the world to the runway.
There were several themes that popped up for Duran Lantink’s FW25. While the collection was aptly named “Duranimals,” which highlighted bold animal prints from jackets featuring zebra-print pony hair to reworked snakeskins, velvet leopard print and repurposing cowskins from LVMH’s deadstock supplier, Duran also showcased camouflage and plaid to create an unexpected combination. The prints extended to its first collaboration with Italian footwear brand Sergio Rossi for the custom runway shoes. It was also the first time the designer collaborated with Paris-based production company Bureau Betak. Lantink used its soon-to-be new offices as the show space and incorporating its daily business into the concept. With the help of sound artist Frederic Sanchez proposed a partly improvised a cappella performance by Parisian choristers inspired by an avant garde sound-piece from the 1970’s to set the stage as models weaved through the cubicles to show off his FW25 collection.
Another theme that was prevalent was Lantink’s ability to be daring. From patterns, prints to even prosthetic body parts, Lantink’s latest collection is purposely kitschy and exaggerative, “I can handle ‘bad taste’ too.” Creating drama throughout the collection, he focused on using more tapered silhouettes to explore “shape as a style,” as opposed to the previous bubble look that had characterized his collections. Two dresses were hand-knit in merino wool into an interlocking form by a group of women in the Netherlands to add to the dramatic shapes seen throughout the collection. Playful allusions to Americana defined a “Wild West mets futuristic” aesthetic as it displayed in the creative denim “bareback” jeans and the action-figure like wearable prosthetics that accentuate certain body parts. To that, Lantink is not baring it all, but he is pinpointing the heroism in women, “I love the idea of women as action figures. I think everyone should feel empowered to create their own identity and not feel restricted by anything.”
Take a look at the collection above.
