Paris Fashion Week is going to need another closing act.
KidSuper, who was supposed to close men’s fashion week with a runway show on June 28, has opted to remain in the States and show his spring collection in Miami during the FIFA World Cup.
This marks the first time the buzzy Brooklyn-based brand will show its main collection outside of Paris since being accepted to the official calendar in June of 2022. Before that, he had shown off-calendar for four years.
This season, however, he will stage a special one-time runway show at Nu Stadium in Miami at 8 p.m. on June 25.
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KidSuper founder and designer Colm Dillane played professional soccer for one year between high school and college and continues to be a huge fan of the sport. He even built a soccer pitch on the roof of his headquarters in Brooklyn and created the KidSuper Football Club for local players.
“Football has always been the thing that makes the world feel smaller,” Dillane said. “You can land somewhere you’ve never been, not speak the language, find a field, and suddenly you have friends. Fashion can do that too sometimes. This show is about that feeling.”
His show will be strategically scheduled between two major tournament matches taking place in Miami on June 24 and June 27, and is expected to draw guests from fashion, sport, music, art and entertainment for an evening that will celebrate the culture surrounding the game.
The show will explore the emotional and cultural dimensions of soccer — both the sport itself and the rituals surrounding it such as the neighborhoods, supporters, local pitches, friendships and shared experiences that make it a universally popular sport.
The show will feature several of KidSuper’s existing collaborators and other sports-related brands, and will introduce new partners the brand said it will reveal in the coming weeks. KidSuper declined to provide specific names and is keeping other details about the show under wraps until that evening.
For those unable to attend in Miami, the presentation will be streamed live to a special viewing experience in Paris at a location that will be revealed shortly.
A company spokesperson stressed that although Dillane decided to move his spring show to the States, it’s a one-off decision and he plans to return to Paris in the future.
A provisional version of the Paris Fashion Week calendar was released on May 22 by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode and this season, some 74 brands will unveil their spring 2027 menswear collections, with 36 runway shows and 38 presentations slated from June 23-28. Among the highest-profile names are regulars Louis Vuitton, Dior, Junya Watanabe, Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto. Hermes will swap its traditional runway show for a presentation format, Saint Laurent will return to the calendar, Sarah Burton will show her first collection for Givenchy and Vetements is also expected to be part of the lineup.
An updated version is expected to be released Friday and there will be two other omissions. Kartik Research, which was planning to show at 2 p.m. CET on June 25, decided to postpone its show after Divyanshu Joshi, a freelance model who managed Kartik Research’s store in Delhi for two years, died on May 28 while in Kerala, India, for a photo shoot. In addition, Juun.J is also not expected to show this season.
