Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2024-2025 show was an ode to the house’s founder, Elsa Schiaparelli, and the legacy she left within the world of Surrealism and high fashion.
Elsa was one of the key figures in the early 20th-century arts and fashion communities in Paris, by March of 1932, her reputation was already made as an entrepreneur who could blur the lines between fashion and art, and even life and art.
Discussing the collection in the show notes which accompany the collection, Creative Director Daniel Roseberry explains: “The context of this collection, which honours Elsa’s singular gift for rebirth, is second only to its form. Each piece is clear in its silhouette and its technique: you can see every look’s origins, how each moved from sketch to study to fabric.
“As well, each look here is meant to elicit some type of emotion, albeit – to paraphrase Hemingway – an emotion that is deeply controlled. Each gown, each bustier, each shoe, every piece of folded velvet feather, or triple organza spike, seeks to catch the eye and hold it. The larger design, too, is meant to arrest but also to some extent mystify, to keep its secrets.”
Indeed, as Roseberry highlighted when discussing the power and influence of Elsa, and the house’s enduring legacy, he looked to the words of the famous Surrealist artist Salvador Dali. The Spanish artist once said, when discussing the house: “No one knows how to say Schiaparelli, but everyone knows what it means.”
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