KidSuper Aims High With Louvre Show, Unveils Mercedes Collaboration
A massive book on the set of the KidSuper runway for Spring Summer 2026 collection, 'The Boy Who ... More Jumped The Moon'
A KidSuper runway debut emphasizes the show in fashion show thanks to his highly creative manner of introducing his seasonal designs. This season founder Colm Dillane upped the ante on both as the Spring Summer 2026 collection was a joy to watch and ripe with creative, elevated designs. The Brooklyn-based creative's oeuvre also features variety, most aptly demonstrated by his many collaborations. This season as guests such as Nicholas Duvernay, Alton Mason and French Montana entered after hours at the Louvre's Musée des Art Décoratifs, they were immediately greeted by an unusual looking Mercedes Benz constructed from a patchwork exterior complete with helium balloons, antique luggage and wings—the result of KidSuper's participation in the German car makers Class of Creators program—on display for the first time.
A look on the KidSuper runway for Spring Summer 2026 collection, 'The Boy Who Jumped The Moon'
KidSuper and its founder Colm Dillane are the third of five 'Class of Creators' multi-collaboration partners to the Mercedes-Benz CLA program that merges automotive innovation with cultural storytelling through artistic collaborations. The fashion that followed included a new capsule collection based on the partnership between the Brooklyn-based fashion show and luxury car brand.
It set the stage for the main event for his show entitled "The Boy Who Jumped Over the Moon," also the title of a children's book a la "Le Petit Prince," Dillane wrote, placed on each guest's seat. The designer has ambitions for publishing it on a large scale. It also became the show's staging.
In theater seating orientation, guests faced a runway stage that had three two-story-high 'books' as a set. As the show began, attendants opened the first page of the first book as the story was read aloud by late-night TV personality Craig Ferguson. Models emerged from slits in the page's placed at varying heights, some requiring a branded movable staircase positioned to descend from.
A Mercedes Benz car designed by KidSuper's Colm Dillane
The clothes related to the various aspects of the boy dreaming of building a flying machine were highly decorative. For example, a yellow space suit, a navy woolen coat painted with the evening sky, a jacket with burn marks, and a suitcase blown out after an in-flight accident, and Dillane's personal favorite, a leather bomber emblazoned with the book cover jacket, illustrations from the book were also recreated on garments. Dillane told reporters backstage that a personal favorite was the 'explosion dress.' Soccer player Mario Balotelli closed the show in a grey fleece cargo pant and a patchwork leather bomber.
Dillane took the complex production in stride. "It's about resources; the more successful you get, the more opportunities you get, the more money you have, and the more people you can work with," he said as he continued acknowledging the congratulatory sentiments post-show.
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