Duran Lantink destroys and repurposes the status items of late capitalism, turns them into sculptural assemblages of layered semiotics, and feeds them back to the high fashion market. He hybridises and liquidifies the aesthetic boundaries of fashion houses, resisting the idea of purification and abstraction common to most brands.

It’s astonishing to see how Duran pulls off this subversive act with integrity, while also nourishing a deep-seated love for the beauty in fashion. Like him, we feel that for the ages to come, fashion, as a visual expression of new modes of being in the world, is not something to leave behind, but to evolve. Duran Lantink’s garments are made to live long, to be transmuted over time, and to adapt with its owners and their adjacent wardrobes. They are conceived to be passed on over generations, as indestructible heirlooms with their own biography.

Some weeks before the launch of his debut collection, Neo-Metabolism started the label’s Identity Development, and took care of strategy, design and production for Duran Lantink’s evolving online platform.