Brooklyn KidSuper Founder Colm Dillane Co-Creates Louis Vuitton AW 2023 Menswear AOC Front Page

KidSuper founder Colm Dillane, Brooklyn’s homegrown superhero, will return to Paris Fashion Week, as the luxury fashion equivalent of an ‘artist as residence’ in the creation of the Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2023 menswear collection.

Mr. Dillane, 31, is considered to be a great storyteller. In 2021, the prestigious LNMH Prize awarded him the runner-up Karl Lagerfeld prize with two other designers. Dillane thrives on collaboration, as did Abloh, and his commercial partners have run the gamut from Puma to SpaghettiOs.

The house announced today that the next collection presented on January 19th was created by the men’s studio “with the participation of Dillane.” There was no suggestion of a formal announcement about the future in replacing the beloved Virgil Abloh.

Michael Burke, Vuitton’s chairman and chief executive officer, told Women’s Wear Daily that the upcoming show “should be seen as an experiment and not an audition’. “I think it’s a little early,” to make personnel predictions, he told WWD.

“In other words, Colm is embedded into the men’s studio,” the house said, referring to the creative vision of the FW 2023 mens collection.