“Spread Love is the Brooklyn Way”—Colm Dillane of KidSuper Took Over Brooklyn’s Borough Hall to Launch Five Emerging Talents

Colm Dillane is the man of a thousand side-quests. The KidSuper designer seems to always be taking on a new thing—a collaboration, writing a play—yet this might be his greatest yet. Dillane is the first-ever Brooklyn Arts Ambassador—what that means, exactly, remains to be determined. Tonight at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall he gave New York Fashion Week a teaser: Dillane worked with five emerging design talents as a mentor, providing them with the space and supplies to work on capsule collections they presented on an outdoors catwalk dubbed The People’s Runway in front of guests including Lauryn Hill, Busta Rhymes, Ne-Yo, and A$AP Ferg.

“I went to high school like five blocks away, and I was always thinking there’s a disconnect between city funding and grants, sponsors, and all that stuff,” Dil