Before the first weekend of Coachella 2023, KidSuper’s Colm Dillane had never been to the famous festival. “I wanted there to be a reason,” he told Hypebeast of his abstinence from the three-day music and arts event. “One of the things I thought was, ‘Could I fake being a DJ for a whole year and get popular enough to get on the lineup?’”
While that dream did not actualize (Coachella 2024, though?), Dillane found himself another reason to attend — and no, it wasn’t as the designer of longtime KidSuper fan Bad Bunny’s headlining fit. Though parts of the audience, at first glance, were buzzing about it being a Dillane special, that statement-making patchwork puffer was, in fact, ERL. It was the opening of UGG’s newest Feel House, a multi-sensory community experience dedicated to “making self-expression comfortable for all” at the Villa Royale in Palm Springs, that summoned him to the desert.
There, UGG tapped the New York-based designer to reimagine its newest Tasman Sport silhouette, exclusively for the three-day experience. Naturally, he plastered the entire silhouette with his artwork, specifically his painting, titled After School Philosophy, which first appeared on his auction-inspired runway in Paris for Spring/Summer 2023. Across a molded, perforated EVA upper and a translucent outsole, Dillane’s quintessential abstract artwork provided the comfort-first footwear label’s iconic slipper with a classic KidSuper makeover.
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