Although KidSuper is best known as Colm’s clothing label, he prefers to brand all of his creative ventures under this moniker. KidSuper is a creative collective that designs and makes clothes; paints and does art shows; records music; and makes films and music videos, all out of KidSuper’s Brooklyn space.
KidSuper is a platform for Colm’s abounding creativity, and its success has made Colm Dillane an unexpected reference in American fashion. Dillane firmly believes that enthusiasm is contagious, and that whatever you do, giving it the utmost enthusiasm will capture people’s heart. “When you are little, you believe you can do anything and that everything is possible – you’re young and you’re free. KidSuper lives by that philosophy.”
Colm Dillane/KidSuper won the 2021 special Karl Lagerfeld Prize at the prestigious LVMH Prize, the 2022 CDFA /Vogue Fashion Fund, and was nominated for the 2022 CFDA American Emerging Designer of the Year Award.
Colm Dillane cannot be contained. The founder of KidSuper created one of today's most sought- after brands by making it in his image, imagination, and dreams, where boundaries do not exist. Colm brings magic and wonder to a world in need of more joy and inclusivity. His infectious and illuminating energy has powered a meteoric rise in the worlds of fashion and creativity. Colm does not quit.
Colm Dillane never shies away from a challenge. He held his own shows off-calendar in 2019 and early 2020...then COVID-19 hit. While most struggled to adjust to the new reality of digital shows, KidSuper welcomed its endless possibilities: he took Paris Fashion Week by storm with four celebrated short films. Subsequently, he was the first American to win the LVMH Karl Lagerfeld Prize in 2021. Last’s season show, an ambitious and witty live-action auction, where audience members bid on the original on-canvas compositions just as the matching garments crossed the catwalk, demonstrated how Dillane transfers his subversive, vivacious art into his KidSuper collections. Colm’s ingenuity and originality did not go un-noticed; he was invited to guest design the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2023 menswear collection.
“We’ll see how it goes, it could fully bomb. But that’s also what’s cool about some of the fashion shows I do; they’re risky”. Colm Dillane
Tonight’s performance, and collection, reflects Colm’s singular take on fashion: It should stay creative, fun, and lighthearted. The collection plays the KidSuper playbook masterfully: art, colors, prints, collages on everything from classic streetwear to his now iconic animated tailoring and coats, and teases two exclusive upcoming collaborations with Jewelry brand PAUER and shoe brand Stuart Weitzman.
