Billy Reid Revives Shindig at Home in Florence With The Kills, Gillian Welch, and His Family and Friends

The show featured a little-bit-country, little-bit-rock-n-roll mix of fall 2024 men’s and women’s looks rooted in tailoring; custom designs; garments pulled from Reid’s 20-year archive; and other pieces made by community artisans. It lived up to the designer’s own assessment of his brand, offered in 2012, the year he won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition, back when  the industry was trend-obsessed and absolutely nobody was saying things like Reid did when he offered this sound bite: “American fashion, built to last.”

Music, food, fashion—Shindig has it all. But what really gives it its flavor is family, and it’s truly a multigenerational affair. Two of Reid’s three children, Abba and Walton, walked in the runway show, after working at the store most of the weekend, and Billy joined Walton on the roof of the design studio where Walton was performing his own original material. Then there was Larry, Reid’s 85-year-old father, who  charmed everyone with his Shindig Revival tee and long silver-white hair held off his face with a Gucci logo headband, like Alessandro Michele, if he’d been spliced with Richie Tenenbaum and aged a few decades.