Revealed
January 26, 2025
The worst storm in historical past hit Eire this weekend, and a digital twister hit the runway of Irish American designer Colm Dillane in Paris throughout his newest epic staging for his model KidSuper.
See catwalkKidsuper Studios – Fall-Winter2025 – 2026 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/highlight
A memorable present from Daniel Wurtzel, the artist with whom Dillane collaborated, who created a mini-maelstrom of dry ice and feathers, and a staging of nice bravura magnificence. Round which Dillane, a cool wonderful artist, despatched his forged in a gutsy assortment of patchwork panache, intriguing intarsia and placing imagery.
As a younger man, Dillane studied arithmetic at NYU. However had been sketching, portray and designing for a few years, earlier than his stop-motion mock runway present of trend figures went viral on the internet throughout Covid, abruptly seeing his profile explode. So, even amid a soaking Saturday night time, 2,000 followers headed out to the previous slaughterhouse La Villette on the rim of Paris to catch this present. On their seats had been mock blue KidSuper Citizen passports, that includes a map of the world. Inside, this system notice unveiled a sequence of partnerships. Such because the white Bathing Ape collab’ T-shirts emblazoned with a picture of spiky pre-teen Dillane with a painter’s easel. Or some wonderful black fits with Wildside Yohji Yamamoto – gangster chalk-stripes have occasional vertical stripes studying KidSuper. And, in a Margiela-worthy conceptual twist Colm had his forged carry new sneakers inside clear plastic show containers.
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Kidsuper Studios – Fall-Winter2025 – 2026 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/highlight
Although he opened with Geisha figures in humongous veils, and a sequence of massively cloaked nomads, large cotton scarves coiled round their faces. Something was a uncooked materials for his down coats – embroidered nylon, intarsia, camouflage or tapestry. Whereas his hand-painted designs of arty figures and the human kind embellished some nice baggage.
Dillane can’t fairly tailor like Giorgio Armani or drape like Alber Elbaz, however in the case of runway theatrics and daring imagery, the likes of John Galliano or Alexander McQueen can be impressed. Like all true Celts, he loves to speak, a lot so he takes to the stage with a microphone for his ovations. This season, amid flying feathers in mini-swirl Dillane defined: “Building a tornado indoors is not easy, but I collaborate with amazing people and an artist called Daniel Wurzel… But I try to do the impossible every time. So, see you guys next year.”
