Paris Fashion Week: Kidsuper Fall/Winter 2026 Menswear
Paris – Colm Dillane doesn’t just stage fashion shows—he builds worlds. For Fall/Winter 2026, the KidSuper designer turned Rue Cambon into a cinematic glitch in reality, presenting a fourth-wall–shattering experience that unfolded somewhere between a runway, a film set, and a philosophical thought experiment.
The show opened with four towering screens forming a box at the center of the runway. On them, a Dillane-directed short film followed Vincent Cassel through the streets of Paris, his unease mirroring the tension of the narrative. He ducked into a café, momentarily soothed by a simple coffee, until the environment around him began to fracture. A woman vanished mid-glance, the room dissolved, and Cassel was left alone in a blinding white void—reality wiped clean in an instant.
As the screens lifted, fiction collapsed into real life. A café table and chair remained on the runway, and a model dressed identically to Cassel stormed out, visibly distressed, shouting, “Who are you? Is this real?” In a knowing meta twist, Cassel himself sat in the audience, smiling as the crowd absorbed the layered spectacle. Just another Saturday night at Paris Menswear—KidSuper style.
The collection itself leaned into the aesthetic of alternative-future cinema, reinforced by a cast notably older than the industry norm. The result felt intentional and poignant, evoking protagonists worn down by dystopian worlds yet still pushing forward. Standouts included a striking nod to Children of Men: a battered trench coat, loosened tie, haunted eyes, and even a coffee cup in hand. Elsewhere, echoes of The Matrix surfaced in black leather ensembles reminiscent of Neo and Morpheus, countered by a textured burgundy leather look with fireman-style clasp fastenings running up the legs. Tyler Durden–esque references added another layer of chaotic masculinity.
Dillane’s signature artistry ran throughout the collection, with his illustrations and paintings woven into fabrics or printed boldly across garments. The show also teased unexpected collaborations, including a KidSuper x Jameson whisky capsule and turf-soled Havaianas that hinted at a future World Cup tie-in—bold moves within an already concept-heavy presentation.
For the finale, Cassel’s on-screen avatar returned, and the models gathered around the café tables as the screens descended once more. The film resumed, showing Cassel back in “normality,” liberated by his awareness of the glitch. He danced. The message was clear and characteristically KidSuper: even if the world isn’t real, you show up as yourself. As Dillane put it, if life is a simulation, you might as well live it like a KidSuper character—fully, creatively, and without hesitation.
Photos Credit: Umberto Fratini / Gorunway.com
