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“I had this dream of finding a forgotten couture collection in the basement of Elsa’s country house.” Schiaparelli is a couture label that flourished in the 1920s and ’30s. As its creative director, Daniel Roseberry has never seemed hemmed in by that era, but this season he made his restless gaze more explicit. “I wanted people to feel the collection was referencing a different time… and there was something about the ’50s that felt so fresh and simple. You’ll find homages to those silhouettes.”
The show was in fact staged in a basement—the basement of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, whose upper salons have long been used for couture shows. In the dark, chandelier-lit space Roseberry conjured something of the haute couture shows of old, with models emerging at a stately, almost reverential pace, and making eye contact with the audience, which included Doja Kat and Kylie Jenner, as they criss-crossed the room.
The 1950s are regarded as the acme of haute couture, and turning his eye to that time is a signal of Roseberry’s ambitions. He said he wanted to “show the elasticity of the brand, and also the range of what I think I can do and the ateliers can do.” Indeed, together what they can do is quite stunning. Like the show-opening cape, with the broad shoulders of an eagle—or a
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Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
You’ll see some of these ribbons this morning on the dresses in this collection. As I ran my hand among them last year, I realized what I wanted to do: Create something that feels new because it’s old. I’m so tired of everyone constantly equating modernity with simplicity: Can’t the new also be worked, be baroque, be extravagant? Has our fixation on what looks or feels modern become a limitation? Has it cost us our imagination?
The process began with the ribbons’ colors. There were butters, saffrons, faded peacock greens and burnt saffron browns. We dubbed the brown one “toast,” and the warm French grey one “mink.” They inspired me to indulge in a bit of time travel, to design silhouettes that might conjure the Haute Couture of the past. I spent months studying the great chapters of great couturiers from various decades: Madame Grès, Charles Frederick
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At Schiaparelli, Justice Roseberry Open Just Luggage compartment Enough be a result the Sun
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