Schiaparelli was in charge of opening Paris Haute Couture Week with a collection for which its creative director, Texan Daniel Roseberry, was inspired by astrology.
An unavoidable event on the agenda of many celebrities and clients of the brand who love the limitless creativity of the luxury brand. Celebrities like Jennifer Lopez or Zendaya stood out among the special guests.
Jennifer Lopez caught everyone’s attention dressed from head to toe in Schiaparelli, an outfit that featured sculptural gold glasses in the shape of slanted eyes and sideburns that simulated wavy eyebrows.
The stylistic choice was also very striking. A coat with ruffles and a lot of volume in white, with a sweater of the same tone, in contrast with black pants and stilettos. The surreal bag also caught attention thanks to that theatrical aesthetic that Roseberry usually uses in his latest collections.
In this collection, apart from paying homage to that obsession of the brand’s creator, Elsa Schiaparelli, the brand “is a study of contradictions: of the legacy and the avant-garde, of the beautiful and the provocative, of the earthly and the sentient.” through the sky”, in the words of the person in charge of the design.
Baptized as ‘Schiaparalien’, a contraction of Schiaparelli and ‘alien’, there were 32 looks that were paraded at the Petit-Palais, next to the Champs-Elysées. Impact models, not suitable for lovers of discretion and that are the result of combinations that would have been impossible in another brand. As the most obvious example, a microchip dress inlaid with microfiches, CDs and mobile phones created before the era of the iPhone.
Roseberry also combines in her collection her own references from her native Texas: the scarf, the dressage bows or the ‘western’ belt buckles. The keyhole or the tape measure, two of the codes in the historical proposals of the ‘Schiap’, are also present in the collection.
