Schiaparelli Couture Combines the Celestial and Cinematic

"Over his past half-decade or so at Schiaparelli, he's confounded expectation and avoided cliché, pulling a brave new identity out of dusty, over-referenced archives - archives indeed so often seen many are wrapped in tissue and under lock and key for a few more years to give them a conservational rest. Last season, Roseberry paid dutiful homage to those looks - a major retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum is opening in March."

""I think people want a reason to believe - to believe in something," Roseberry said, quietly, a few days before his couture show. "That felt really urgent." At couture, belief is in the unbelievable, which is what Roseberry's clothes looked like. They're also a little bit inexplicable. The designer himself talked about ecclesiastical restraint, austerity - which, really, you've seen in Schiaparelli across a few years, Roseberry paring away silhouettes, shapes, even his hitherto trademark gilded embroideries."

Daniel Roseberry staged a Schiaparelli Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture collection inspired by a visit to the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's frescoes. The collection emphasized ecclesiastical restraint and austerity, paring away silhouettes, shapes, and gilded embroideries to create a quieter, more ascetic Schiaparelli identity. A juxtaposition of heavenly imagery and pared-back craftsmanship produced garments that felt at once unbelievable and inexplicable, aiming to give audiences a reason to believe. The season followed a recent retrospective and continued the house's reinvention through archival reference and bold conceptual ambition.

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