Ksubi founder seen in public for first time in years as he launches Fashion Week event after stepping away from the brand and almost dying in balcony fall – but did ex Pip Edwards attend?

Ksubi founder Dan Single returned to the spotlight with a bang on Tuesday as he launched his first fashion event since almost dying from a balcony fall in 2017.

The designer, 47, ‘fell three floors’ from his room at Hotel Grand D’Amour in Paris in March 2017, shattering both his legs.

But as he makes his comeback to the limelight at Australian Fashion Week, it seems his ex and fellow Ksubi colleague Pip Edwards was missing. 

Dan staged an art installation at AFW to promote his new book The Diary of a Naughtie Kid at Carriageworks, but Ksubi Creative Director Pip was nowhere in sight.

The P.E Nation founder, 45, who shares son Justice, 18, with Dan, was not pictured at the art installation, nor did she make any public comments about Dan’s show.

The installation took place at Carriageworks at 5pm, but Pip wasn’t pictured on location until 6pm when she attended the Beare Park runway.

Ksubi founder Dan Single, 47, returned to the spotlight with a bang on Tuesday as he launched his first fashion event since almost dying from a balcony fall in 2017

The designer ‘fell three floors’ from his room at Hotel Grand D’Amour in Paris in March 2017, shattering both his legs. Pictured in 2016

It’s unclear if Pip, who split from Dan in 2008, reached out to to her ex to support him privately or just made a low-key appearance at his show. 

Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Pip for comment. 

Dan’s book, which features photos and ephemera such as love letters, hate mail and newspaper clippings from Dan’s reign in the fashion world in the 2000s, is ‘a little snapshot in time when it was a magical moment to be alive’.

The book is dedicated to his teenage son Justice, who he shares with P.E Nation designer Pip.

The installation launching The Diary of a Naughtie Kid, which was attended by several hundred audience members at Carriageworks in Sydney, featured a heavily tattooed woman sitting upon a tin foil wrapped couch surrounded by images from the tome.

Dan, who has rarely discussed his 2017 accident which happened at an upscale Paris hotel, revealed he ‘died for ten minutes’ after the fall, which left him in a coma.

‘It made me stop, slow down and think about what I want in my life,’ the designer told Confidential on Wednesday.

‘I had a chance to start fresh and I have used that second chance to be of service and help to inspire.’

 But as he makes his comeback to the limelight at Australian Fashion Week, it seems his ex and fellow Ksubi colleague Pip Edwards, 45, was missing. Pip is pictured one hour after Dan’s installation at a different fashion show  

Dan staged an art installation at AFW to promote his new book The Diary of a Naughtie Kid at Carriageworks, but Ksubi Creative Director Pip was nowhere in sight 

The P.E Nation founder, who shares son Justice, 18, with Dan, was not pictured at the art installation, nor did she make any public comments about Dan’s show

Dan fell 35 metres from the fourth-storey balcony of Hotel Grand D’Amour in Paris in March 2017.

The accident saw him plunge several storeys, shattering his legs and leaving him in a coma for eight days.

The Daily Telegraph first reported Dan’s fall, with a source telling the publication at the time: ‘His legs are a complete mess; he won’t be walking for a very long time.

‘He is not in a good way. It’s expected both he and Bambi will have to stay over there for quite a while because he’s not able to fly.’

The following month, Dan created a Go Fund Me page, writing he’s ‘been given a second lease at life’.

‘It all sounds awful but the guy writing this mail has been given a second lease at life and is SO grateful, inspired and excited to be back soon,’ he wrote on the page.

‘I am also lucky to have my family here by [my] side, wife, mother, brother and at least a visitor a day.’

Dan said at the time he was hoping to raise $250,000 to help pay for his recovery and any associated costs.

 The installation took place at Carriageworks at 5pm, but Pip wasn’t pictured on location until 6pm when she attended the Beare Park runway

It’s unclear if Pip, who split from Dan in 2008, reached out to to her ex to support him privately or just made a low-key appearance at his show. Pictured together in 2008 

Dan fell 35 metres from the fourth-storey balcony of Hotel Grand D’Amour (pictured) in Paris in March 2017 

‘Help fund the hospital bill, rehab bill, early flights home, being unable to make bread and work over the next [few] months and all the incidentals the family is covering at the moment,’ Dan added.

The entrepreneur also clarified the media reports were correct, and he shattered ‘every bone from my feet to my hips and pelvis’.

‘I fell three floors (35 metres) out of my hotel room in Paris, did a summersault and landed on my feet which saved my spine and my brain (a miracle says the doctor, one in 100 million chance).’

Dan added about his recovery: ‘I have been in a coma for two weeks, had eight operations and am covered in pins and bolts in my bones.

‘I cannot use my legs for another month or two so will be in a rehab centre in Paris recovering.’

Dan was labelled ‘pathetic’ for asking the public to raise the $250,000 to help cover his medical bills.

An anonymous donor said: ‘How come you can fund partying, drinking and overseas trips but not your own recovery?’

‘I’ll give you $5 with the sole intent of telling you what an idiot everyone thinks you are.’

Dan later removed the crowdfunding campaign after it was met with an avalanche of abuse with the former BRW Young Rich-lister labelled ‘disgusting’ by commenters.

He announced his his split with then-wife Bambi Northwood-Blyth in March 2018, exactly twelve months after his Paris balcony fall.

Bambi tied the knot with Dan in Byron Bay in January 2014, with Bambi becoming a step-mother to Dan’s son Justice, 10, at the age of 22.