Louis Vuitton FW 2023 Menswear with Colm Dillane Is Praise-Worthy AOC Fashion

KidSuper founder Colm Dillane, Brooklyn’s homegrown superhero, returned 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 LVMH Prize awarded him the runner-up Karl Lagerfeld prize with two other designers.

Louis Vuitton Fall 2023 Menswear Show

The evolution of the design studio organization at Louis Vuitton Mens is now in the hands of former race car driver — and accomplished LVMH executive — Pietro Beccari.

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Now that the FW 2023 Louis Vuitton show is over, speculation is running rampant about prospects for a permanent appointment for Colm Dillane.

As astute minds who know the LVMH group well have stated, this may continue as a slow process. Given the kind of financial success Louis Vuitton is enjoying, there is nothing to fix at the moment.

Having reflected on the success of last week’s Colm Dillane presentation, AOC does see the fit with Dillane and Abloh in a way that we didn’t on January 19th, the day of the Fall 2023 show.

Louis Vuitton Fall 2023 Menswear Show, Paris January 2019, with Colm Dillane

I personally went back over Virgil’s older shows and the influence of the menswear design studio is strong in the Fall 2023 collection. This is not about radical change.

AOC believes strongly that elegance is in the wind. I did keep asking myself “Would Jay-Z wear these clothes? Would the NBA players wear these clothes because the LV Men’s NBA clothes are fabulous.

AOC remains a believer that Beccari and Arnault will take the menswear design group for an innovative spin — sort of a design laboratory that focuses on the future studio workplace.

But to hear in March that Colm Dillane gets his LV men’s position would not surprise us.

We are positive that LVMH will make some kind of investment in Dillane. His whole story and his talent are pretty irresistable.