About this Event
To mark New York Fashion Week, Colm Dillane joins Rizzoli Bookstore for a conversation about creativity, curiosity, and the making of KidSuper.
Dillane will discuss his newly released book, an illustrated autobiography that traces his path from a dorm room at NYU to one of fashion’s most unexpected and expansive creative practices. Less a traditional memoir than a visual notebook, the book moves through clothing, painting, performance, and collaboration, capturing the spirit of a designer who has never been interested in staying in one lane. Dillane will be in conversation with Josh Baer, followed by a book signing.
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Born and raised in Manhattan, Dillane founded KidSuper as a way to hold everything he makes under one roof. What began as graphic T-shirts sold to friends quickly grew into a Brooklyn-based studio where fashion exists alongside paintings, films, music, and live performances. The clothes reflect that mindset. Bold, tactile, and playful, they sit somewhere between streetwear and wearable art, driven by emotion rather than trend.
Collaboration has always been central to Dillane’s practice. His runway shows feel closer to cultural gatherings than traditional fashion presentations, often featuring artists, athletes, and performers from across disciplines, from Action Bronson to Tyra Banks to Ronaldinho to Vincent Cassel. Each show builds a world, soundtracked and staged with the same care as the clothes themselves.
That open, multidisciplinary approach has brought Dillane recognition well beyond New York. In 2023, he was invited to guest design the Louis Vuitton Homme Collection, a rare moment that underscored his position as a true outsider operating at the highest level. The book brings together the artwork, graphics, and ideas behind those moments, offering a glimpse into the restless energy and joy that sit at the center of KidSuper.
More than a retrospective, the conversation at Rizzoli is an invitation into Dillane’s way of thinking: playful, sincere, and rooted in the belief that creativity works best when it stays open.
Colm Dillane’s path to fashion wasn’t linear - and that’s part of what makes it so compelling. Before launching KidSuper, he played professional football, made short films, recorded music, and painted. The label grew out of that same restless energy: a natural extension of a creative practice that never fit neatly into a single box. What began as a way to screenprint T-shirts for friends has evolved into a platform that bridges fashion, art, and storytelling—with a healthy dose of humor along the way.
In 2020, after two rejections, Dillane finally made it onto the official Paris Fashion Week calendar - not with a traditional runway, but with a claymation film that felt more like a wildly imaginative experiment than a debut. It was strange, funny, and surprisingly moving, and the industry took notice. A year later, Dillane became the first American to win the LVMH Karl Lagerfeld Prize, an acknowledgment not just of talent but of vision.
KidSuper is part clothing label, part art project, part social experiment. And Dillane is its magnetic center. Born in New York to an Irish fisherman and a Spanish painter, he grew up between cultures and disciplines, absorbing as much from the classroom as from the soccer field or his mother’s studio. That duality - playful yet precise, scrappy but soulful - is baked into everything he touches.
Calling KidSuper’s collections “collections” doesn’t quite capture what Dillane puts on a runway. Each season feels more like an open letter - sometimes to New York, sometimes to his friends, always to the chaotic, endearing parts of being alive. In an industry that often prizes polish and distance, he leans into vulnerability, humor, and a kind of joyful disorder. His shows land somewhere between performance and provocation: part theater, part reflection. They’ve become a fixture on the Paris Fashion Week schedule not for chasing the moment, but for offering something entirely of their own.
Josh Baer is a leading arts writer, advisor, and the founder and CEO of The Baer Faxt, a multi-channel digital content platform that has held an unrivaled position at the nexus of the art world for over 30 years. He is known for sharing his art world insights to a global audience of art market professionals each week via The Baer Faxt Newsletter, Podcast, and proprietary Auction Database. Last fall, The Baer Faxt expanded its mission and launched No Reserve, a fast-growing, free weekly newsletter designed to address the needs of new and aspiring collectors across multiple art and luxury categories.
In his long-running art advisory practice, Josh is known in the industry for helping clients to avoid costly mistakes. With a strong track record of art acquisitions and successful sales, he works with some of the industry’s most influential collectors, and has completed over $500 million worth of transactions to date.
Each week, he shares news & insights about the intertwined worlds of art & luxury via his eponymous newsletter, podcast, and NoReserve, a new free weekly publication for new and aspiring collectors. Packed with practical guidance and data-backed insights, each issue of NoReserve reflects Josh’s mission to make insider knowledge accessible to all. To start receiving NoReserve free each Monday, sign up here.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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