Making his New York Fashion Week debut this past week was Jivan Calderone, the son of legendary DJ Victor Calderone and interior designer Athena Calderone. After DJing a couple of fashion events, including one for Moncler, the NYU senior was tapped by Todd Snyder to do the music for his fall 2025 runway show, held at the Academy Mansion.
Calderone was tapped by the Todd Snyder team around a month ago to DJ the New York Fashion Week show. He’d known the designer casually over the years but hadn’t officially met until recently. While in Italy this past year for his mom’s 50th, he wore a full suit by Synder, and day to day has several of his sweaters in the mix.
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“It’s Todd mixed with a little more streetwear,” he said of his style. “I’ve honestly got five sweaters from Todd that I’m just swapping out recently.”
When it came to working together for the show, Snyder sent over his inspirations and Calderone got to work, going through his music library and picking what he thought fit the vibe. Closer to showtime, he came in for a fitting and got to see the mood board.
“Snyder described [the collection] as breaking into this mansion, with the speakers and everything surrounding it,” Calderone said, motioning to the show space inside the Academy Mansion. “It definitely helped a lot.”
Growing up, as the son of one of New York’s most prominent DJs, Calderone initially resisted the music industry.
“It’s funny, I was surrounded by it my entire life, and I thought I had no interest in it at first,” Calderone says. “When I was 14, 15 maybe, is when I realized, ‘Oh, my dad’s a DJ. This isn’t normal.’ I just thought everyone had a DJ dad.’”
Since he’s gotten the DJ bug himself, he and Victor are able to talk shop, and recently played back to back for the first time at Athena’s birthday party.
“He’s my biggest inspiration. He’s obviously the best teacher when it comes to that,” Calderone says.
In addition to DJing, he also produces music and released his first single “Stand Still” a few months ago. Up next is a tour that will take him from Miami to San Francisco, and once he graduates this spring he hopes to pursue music full time.
“It’s definitely ramping up,” he says.