A Pair of Boobs Got a Lot of Attention at Paris Fashion Week

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Fashion loves a gimmick, especially at the tail end of a long season of shows. On Sunday, Dutch designer Duran Lantink got the internet’s attention when he closed his fall 2025 show with a smiling male model wearing a pair of large, bouncy silicone breasts, which prompted the audience to giggle and post. Out of context clips of the busty model’s walk racked up views on X and TikTok in the hours after the show.

Lantink, known for upcycling designer overstock, is no stranger to nudity or genitalia-inspired fashion. Back in 2019, the year he launched his namesake label, he designed a pair of “vagina pants” for Janelle Monáe’s “Pynk” music video. And his most recent collection featured models in ass-less pants and opened with model Mica Argañaraz wearing a latex breastplate that looked like a muscular male chest.

“It’s about cosplay, it’s playing with bad taste, it’s about form. Every season, we’re trying to sort of surprise ourselves with how we can change an original piece into something that we find interesting,” Lantink told WWD about his new collection, which used foam padding to cleverly distort body shapes. Not that most people online saw those pieces, since they were largely overshadowed by the jiggly finale.

Mica Argañaraz leads the finale of Duran Lantink’s latest show, which was set in a corporate-style office.
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Nipples and prosthetic breasts are nothing new in fashion, let alone drag culture. The artist and fashion designer Akeem Smith has worn prosthetic body suits nor a commentary on body image, for example. But Lantink’s intentions were less clear, and afterwards, not everyone found the stunt funny. Dilara Findikoglu, the designer of Julia Fox’s nearly nude post-Oscar’s dress, seemed to criticize Lantink on Instagram without naming him, echoing other commenters’ thoughts. “Disappointed to see mockery of the female body by a young male designer that I actually loved and respected,” she wrote. “Honestly it’s so tiring to see men still using our bodies in this medieval mindset.”

Still, the TikTok bait helped Lantink land a boost in awareness. While he won the Andam Prize in 2023 and LVMH’s Karl Lagerfeld Prize in 2024, he remains little known, even in fashion-industry circles. That soon may change: WWD reported in January that Lantink is being considered as the new creative director for Jean Paul Gaultier.

Alex Consani models a look in Duran Lantink’s latest runway show.
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