Creative Director Daniel Roseberry once again pays the homage to house’s founder Elsa Schiaparelli.

French fashion house Schiaparelli presented the Autumn Winter 2022.23 Haute Couture Collection at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, during the ongoing Paris Fashion Week. At the same day, the museum has opened a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the house’s founder, titled “Shocking! The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli.” Creative Director Daniel Roseberry, decided to show a several of the outfits from the exhibit on the runway as well.

Roseberry once again proves that fashion is important part of life and making truly beautiful things isn’t easy. He admits fashion is silly at times, but he also states it’s provocative, upending, challenging, and meaningful, as well as breathtaking and beautiful.

“In recent years, though, it’s felt like fashion has tried its hardest to prove it actually isn’t silly. The pressure designers feel to make a statement about the current political situation, our ongoing climatic disaster, the inequalities among people of different races and genders, and an age of war has in fact led to some extraordinary work, not to mention a reengagement of our industry with the broader culture.” – Daniel Roseberry.

The collection itself is a dramatic dedication to haute couture, corseted velvet corsets, bias-cut dresses supported by threads, asymmetrical silk pajamas revealing breasts, flowing flowers emerging from the neckline or shoulders, exaggerated canopies, paintings Hat and hay shawl.

Roseberry recreates the luxury of Christian Lacroix‘s 1987 debut. Some of the mature floral arrangements are inspired by designer and social icon Carolyne Roehm‘s book A Passion for Flowers, a replica of the coffee table Roseberry’s grandmother made as a child. These are amazing sewing feats when viewed up close. The sunflower, rose and lavender leaves are hand painted and sequined silk, and even the petals are made of leather and moulded into the back of the spoon.

“I always talk about trying to achieve that state of creative innocence—of fighting tostay close to that person who fell in love with fashion and its possibilities, of not succumbing to cynicism or world-weariness,” Roseberry said. “I hope that spirit comes through in this collection: I hope people who see it can tell what fun the team and I had making it. I hope the joy we felt, of creating things, of getting to make beautiful objects that people will always remember, is evident in every coat, dress, and accessory.” Daniel Roseberry.

Moreover, the Creative Designer also revealed the collection was influenced by “the way Elsa dressed,” which entailed meticulous tailoring. Roseberry also described it as “this type of sensual body-conscious and body-obsessed eveningwear, everything structured around the bustier and the corset.”

The neckline of a black velvet jacket cut into a face’s profile and the encrusted Lesage embroidery that she relished in were modest tributes to Elsa Schiaparelli’s own Magical realist inspirations. A pair of earrings dripping bunches of golden grapes and so heavy that they had to be tied with a delicate tiara hair band brought a simple black velvet evening dress that appeared like one of Roseberry’s dramatic design sketches to life into Schiap’s zany universe. Peace doves are being delivered to the collection in 2022.

Check out some looks from Schiaparelli FW22-23 Haute Couture Collection.