SCHIAPARELLI HAUTE COUTURE SPRING SUMMER 2026

SCHIAPARELLI HAUTE COUTURE SPRING/SUMMER 2026 ‘THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY’ by @DANIELROSEBERRY ‘The emotional core of this collection was revealed to me while I was on a creative retreat outside of Rome. One afternoon, I arranged a last-minute tour to see the Sistine Chapel. If you’ve been there, you know that the first thing you see isn’t the ceiling, but the walls, densely painted by an army of artists in the years before Michelangelo began his work in 1508. But crane your neck skyward, and thought stops. Feeling begins. That’s because forty years later, one man came in and singlehandedly changed art forever. Here is agony and ecstasy comingled, terrible and exquisite. He didn’t tell us what happened, but instead gave his audience permission on how to feel when they looked at art. It woke up the world. And 500 years later, it woke me up, too. I stopped thinking for the first time in years of how something should look, but instead about how I feel when creating it. That revelation informed every part of this collection. Sharp strokes and rapid squiggles became scorpion tails. I drew stingers and snake teeth, chimeraed archetypes of couture with venom. I knew these reptilian creatures, these “infantas terribles,” as I called them, would become the heroes of the collection, our ceiling: they’d be birds of flight, defying gravity, bold in color, explosive in silhouette. So many people ask me what the point is of couture. It’s certainly not to create clothing for daily life.