KidSuper’s Colm Dillane’s oeuvre almost always features variety and collaborations. This season, at the Louvre’s Musée des Art Décoratifs, guests including Nicholas Duvernay, Alton Mason and French Montana were greeted by a novel Mercedes Benz with a patchwork exterior and filled with helium balloons, antique luggage and wings—the result of KidSuper’s participation in the German car makers Class of Creators program.
It was an apt set for a show titled “The Boy Who Jumped Over the Moon,” also the title of the children’s book placed on each seat, which the designer hopes to publish on a large scale, and which serves as the show’s set – think three two-story high ‘books.’
To kick off the show, attendants opened the first page of the first book from slits in the page’s placed at varying heights.
The clothes that followed were highly decorative: a yellow space suit, a navy woolen coat painted with the evening sky, a jacket with burn marks, a suitcase blown out after an in-flight accident, and a leather bomber emblazoned with the book cover jacket. Illustrations from the book were also recreated on garments. Soccer player Mario Balotelli closed the show in a gray fleece cargo pant and a patchwork leather bomber.
It was a complex production that Dillane pulled off perfectly. As Dillane put it, “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.”
Photos by Zach Hilty/BFA.com
Colm Dillane
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