Jean Paul Gaultier S/S 2026 Paris

[dancv]

If JPG were a concert, this would be the cheap merch you’d buy outside the gates.

 

[YohjiAddict]

Very dumb collection, the hair bodysuits are such a cheap rage-baity tactic but in Lulu’s place I would sue.

The rest doesn’t even offend me, these are the tepid leftovers that belong in the CSM graduate show in London. But showing it in Paris? There are hardly any real clothes to speak of if you take away all the Lycra.

Me thinks Puig will intervene if it gets really bad, can you imagine the perfume adds with the models wearing this?

 

[youthinasia]

If JPG were a concert, this would be the cheap merch you’d buy outside the gates.

*the cheap merch you’d buy on AliExpress

 

[brandon J pierre]

I liked it, as a fashion fun show, jpg ideas turn up side down. Nothing real here. The models looked like they're great grandchildren of people of the early nineties and late eighties who walks for show. A new generation.
Is this gonna be a seasonal position or is this guy there permanently? He need to make real clothing for the next collection

 

[fenty]

And I’m already seeing industry people raving about it. Go to hell.

Industry is full of boot lickers. not receiving next season's invite to JPG will not kill you babe 😩

 

[Alquimista]

Poor Lulu. This look will haunt her forever.

He could at least made a fun show. These are not conceptual clothes, they're just pathetic irreverent .

 

[Armani]

What disrespect. Blasphemous collection.

I'd actually have liked it if LDSS' Ann Demeulemeester collection was this one lol

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

In your opinion, who was the main influence on this collection?

1) Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
2) Vetements x Niki de Saint-Phalle
3) Calzedonia
4) Pierre Cardin
5) Jean Paul Gaultier

I say number two.

 

[dieinmytabis]

did duran lantink not realize he was making a show for gaultier and not his own brand? this is an abomination, im disturbed.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

I just don’t see this as necessary. There’s some okay pieces, some interesting ideas that are very JPG in spirit but it also wasn’t needed. Gaultier RTW in all honesty just seems pointless because at large no one entirely cares except for the go to “classiques” of the brand.

I don’t see why Duran had to go to JPG and make the same thing they already do as well. I’d rather just see what they can do for couture and call it a day. Was this all really worth reopening the RTW division? It’s not horrible, there’s been worse. But there’s also better. And there’s collections that didn’t really need to happen because no one really asked for this nor does it contribute much too.

 

[jeanclaude]

It´s literally one of his collections (naked men print included) with the JPG label sewn into the clothes. Laziness epic level!

 

[MyNameIs]

Tenor.com

 

[Lola701]

Can’t remember a fashion show pissing me off like this did. Genuinely embarrassing and downright insulting to JPG’s legacy.

And I’m already seeing industry people raving about it. Go to hell.

I mean…JPG himself was happy. He cried. And it was tears of joy…

 

[vogue22]

I mean…JPG himself was happy. He cried. And it was tears of joy…

Aw, surely it was because he knew he had a flight to Mykonos that evening!

 

[woemwoem]

That outfit Lulu wore is completely awful and completely hilarious. I don't know what woman would wear it except as a gag or Halloween costume.

 

[Delleone]

I couldn’t turn away, transfixed. Fashion knickers in a twist galore! Giggles.

The thing is that we are arguably seeing the influence of Lantink permeate quite a few collections this season: inflated, curvilinear forms (Stella look 15?); abbreviated graphic shapes; an offbeat, discordant approach to show music — see Loewe. Although that might be down to Jodie Barnes who styled both collections.

He did rewrite the rule book to some extent last season so let’s see how this plays out. I need time. Dare I say, the Lantink Stink does make you think? Too soon?

 

[Kanzai]

Just want to drop this masterpiece here.

Thread: Jean-Paul Gaultier F/W 2002.03 Paris

 

[NoInvite]

This could have been a collab and it would have been fine.
I still don't get this appointment. What is his mission exactly?
Clearly it's not to make sellable clothes.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

This provokes in me a little bit the same questions and reaction like the Versace show (although at Versace I spotted a couple of pieces that I want to try).

To be honest, I also thought when I was watching the show that JPG would like it, because this is a very raw approach, concerned only with doing fashion, and ignoring the commercial side or current trends. It is unique and unforgettable (let's not discuss why).

Now, what I find interesting here (and at Versace) is that I have to think, beyond my taste and criteria, if this has its place in fashion, and I think it does, because from bad you can go to good, but from mediocre you can only go to mediocre.

He is a young designer who doesn't care about Phoebe Philo.
This type of show is in a way necessary if we don't want a fashion landscape full of beige nicely cut coats and skirts with an elegant twist.

 

[Phuel]

I couldn’t turn away, transfixed. Fashion knickers in a twist galore! Giggles.

The thing is that we are arguably seeing the influence of Lantink permeate quite a few collections this season: inflated, curvilinear forms (Stella look 15?); abbreviated graphic shapes; an offbeat, discordant approach to show music — see Loewe. Although that might be down to Jodie Barnes who styled both collections.

He did rewrite the rule book to some extent last season so let’s see how this plays out. I need time. Dare I say, the Lantink Stink does make you think? Too soon?

If you take the Gaultier references into consideration, this is so painfully juvenile, so lazily hamfisted, so desperately clickbaitey 1st-year sign student’s plundering of Gaultier’s archive: le trompe-l’oeil nude bodysuits of S/S 1993 but redone cheaply with the full frontal TEMU-cheapness; the cubist graphic design lines of A/W 1989 are mimimiml-effort revised as stirrup chaps, and Gaultier’s collab with Philippe Decouflé’s costumes that he’s been ripping off for his own label are redone SKIMS-style with all the padding-accented bodysuits are all heavily referenced but poorly realized here, resembling more acrobat’s costumes for Cirque du Soleil than RTW. Those 3 Gaultier references are the bulk of his inspirations here. That he just threw in a heaping of his own tired sculpted box jackets ripped off Giles Deacon that already looks and feels dated circa2010 is so lazy, and already a glaring warning that he doesn’t have much left to offer, even for trolling. The kindest gesture I can muster is that at least the flow is consistent in its very basic junior bodysuiting clickbait vibe. It’s never all over the place like so many of his contemporaries that have infested these fabled houses.

And all this in hopes of the Gaultier brand pushing wannabe-SKIMS on gen alpha, not even gen z. Is this what Jean Paul really wants to be relevant for in 2026? The lowest of hanging fruits come to mind.