Runway Show: Idea #1
Class is in session!!!!!!
Going to start putting Time on my christmas list because that’s the thing I’m lacking it seems. Lately I have been performing a balancing act involving all my creative pursuits, life enjoyment, family, relationships, and a new design job and the thing I keep wishing for is more time. My new role especially contrasts the three months I was lucky enough to not be working a fulltime job. Which is when I started a substack, made a zine, and was actually able to cook during the week. Now it’s uber eats and living on weekends only. So if anyone knows a curse against burnout, please feel free to hex me!
One of my efforts in the burn out battle is to challenged myself to think of one creative idea unrelated to work and flush it out as much as I’m able. This could be simply jotting ideas down in my notes or attempting to create some tangible output to share with all ya’ll on here.
When interviewing for this new role I was asked “what is your dream job?” and my answer to that hasn’t always existed because I never wanted to pigeon hole myself. I’m also sickeningly indecisive about almost everything but clothes. However a job did pop into my mind, designing runway shows. Alexandre de Betak is such an icon to me and was partially the inspiration behind this answer. Look into his work if you’re not familiar, I implore you. My love of editorial shoots and shows I can also credit to all the hours of America’s Next Top Model I consumed as a tween. So the brief I gave myself was to think up an original runway show idea. See what I came up with below🌟
The Direction: NO MODELS - 70’s inspired animated watercolor and pen illustrations that “walk” down the runway via screens + projection
The Brand: KidSuper
The Location: A public elementary school gymnasium (kids from the school get fitted and seated front row?? That’d be much cuter than the usual social media plants
Music: Norwegian DJ, Todd Terje to curate a vibe closely resembling his track Delorean Dynamite
The Invite: A Kidsuper paperdoll dress up booklet
Moodbinder above is demonstrating the general art direction of the illustrations and the show. For anyone wondering - the actual clothes will be on display within trophy cases around the school for attendees to look at pre and post show. Also can we just imagine a post fashion show party in the school hallways?? Kinda sick with colored lockers, bean bag chairs, and those paper cut-out arts n craft bulletin boards all around.
I think this show could be a cool alternate to the typical stone cold models we associate with luxury fashion shows. And KidSuper would be a great brand for this given Colm Dillane’s continued emphasis on and love of playfulness, art, and sports within the fashion space. I was between Anna Sui and KidSuper but I saw that the latter had done a puppet-like show for the 2025 Men’s collection. Pics below! So when it came down to it I felt that the this illustration X gymnasium idea related back to their current creative brand choices.
That’s all for now! I had this idea drafted two months ago and finally got my homework turned in! XOXO
