Schiaparelli Spring 2026 Haute Couture

Daniel Roseberry’s Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture show for Schiaparelli took guests somewhere between heaven and hell. Shown beneath the soaring ceilings of the Petit Palais, The Agony and the Ecstasy was inspired by Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, but instead of angels, Roseberry sent mythological chimeras down the runway. The designer, known for his love of shock and surrealism, channelled the house’s founder, Elsa Schiaparelli, not through nostalgia but through provocation. The result was a spectacle of sculptural imagination, where the human body became a site for fantasy and metamorphosis.

The collection explored the tension between restraint and release. After several seasons of stripped-back tailoring, Roseberry built upward into otherworldly forms: reptilian bustiers, transparent suits pierced with horned lace, and gowns feathered like exotic raptors. There were scorpion tails, resin bird heads, and shimmering silk constructions that hovered between armour and skin. Yet amid the spectacle was an unexpected precision. Every detail — from trompe-l’œil embroidery to curved metallic trims — showed the discipline of couture handwork harnessed to a feverish imagination.

Roseberry’s Schiaparelli continues to test the limits of belief in fashion. Accessories resembled fossils or relics, jewels echoed stolen treasures, and silhouettes tilted toward the cinematic — part Michelangelo, part Alien. It was a study in contradiction: divine and carnal, sculpted and spontaneous, shocking yet exquisitely made. If couture is meant to make people look up in wonder, Roseberry managed exactly that, transforming Schiaparelli’s surreal legacy into a living, breathing act of faith.