"Daniel Roseberry had his Spring/Summer 2026, haute couture, fashion come-to-Jesus moment in a pretty appropriate location. Last year, he took a touristic mini-break to Rome - Elsa Schiaparelli's birthplace, almost incidentally - and ended up, as many of us do, packed cheek-to-jowl with gawkers in the Sistine Chapel. He looked up. And he thought: that could make a great fashion show. Lofty ideals."
"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. This season, he did one better."
Daniel Roseberry traveled to Rome and stood in the Sistine Chapel, drawing direct inspiration from Michelangelo’s ceiling and heavenly bodies. He translated that inspiration into a Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture collection for Schiaparelli that emphasized ecclesiastical restraint, austerity, and pared-back silhouettes. The collection dialed back the house’s previous gilded embroideries and leaned into a brave new identity forged from archival references. A major retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum is scheduled next March. The final presentation felt transcendental, presenting designs that held their own alongside monumental Renaissance imagery.
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