March 7, 2022 |
“One of my favourite things about working in fashion is that a single spell of creativity can inspire the efforts of dozens of people and result in months of execution. Last fall, on the eve of opening our first permanent shop in Bergdorf Goodman in New York, I sat down and, for about nine hours, painted freehand a 40-foot-long drop cloth with the codes of the Maison: body parts, padlocks and keyholes, measuring tapes and bijoux were rendered in black ink on bone white cotton—the finished canvas served as both that night’s tablecloth at our dinner, and later, this season’s creative jumping off-point…”
And so, we were at this table and Daniel Roseberry continued to serve and exuberantly explore “Planet Schiaparelli”, producing a collection of fearless fantasy, his American eye unafraid to play with the glamour and wit that lies at the heart of Schiaparelli. The looks were presented in the full glory of black and white, statuesque, sculptural, crackling and fizzing with armour plating spikes, and wild Edward Scissorhands ‘gloves’. An audacious leather torso bag was also added into the mix, that included the 1930s softness of a trompe l’oeil knit. The collection was a wonder of Jean Cocteau references and 2022 body deft pieces. Roseberry likes to contour, he sketches, he gets the curves and the kinks. He is a showman.
Photography courtesy of Schiaparelli.
