Let’s reiterate here and be reminded that creations of the couture are not about being commercial and in most cases push the envelope as well as afforded by possibly 1% of the female clientele on a worldwide basis. It is extravagant. Sometimes over stated and in many cases incomparable to any other facet of fashion.
Case in point is Schiaparelli by Daniel Roseberry whose theme was matador this season incorporating the DNA, vocabulary and iconography that once belonged to Elsa Schiaparelli. The embroideries are sublime, there are pieces that are in their own way commercial and then there are pieces that push the envelope to cartoonish especially in the accessory areas and in scale.
In many ways much of what you see is overstatement... almost to the point of absurd but then again that’s what couture is all about. It’s fantasy, it’s no holds barred but what is missing here is the fact that the eponymous designer did in fact design some exquisite clothes that did not push the envelope to the edge and were in fact simply conceived. A few more “palette cleansers” might has softened the shock of much of it.
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I’m sure
Roseberry has developed a cult like clientele who is will to pay in the 5 and 6
figure range to own one of these 21st century iterations of Schiaparelli.
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