What Schiaparelli is known for
Elsa’s surrealist house resurrected — Daniel Roseberry’s gilded anatomy, lobster dresses to golden toes, Place Vendôme’s wildest couture.
Elsa Schiaparelli was couture's surrealist — Dalí painted her lobsters, Cocteau drew on her jackets, and between the wars her Place Vendôme salon was the laboratory where fashion met the avant-garde as equals. Shocking pink is her invention and her copyright on the culture; the trompe-l'oeil bow sweater, the shoe hat and the tear-illusion dress remain art-history syllabus material. Chanel, her great rival, called her "that Italian artist who makes clothes."
The house closed in 1954 and slept for six decades until Tod's Diego Della Valle revived it at 21 Place Vendôme — the original address. Since 2019, Texan Daniel Roseberry has made the revival the most talked-about couture in Paris: gilded anatomy — molded golden breastplates, lungs and toes — measuring-tape gowns, the animal heads of the 2023 Inferno show that broke the internet twice in one morning.
Lady Gaga's inauguration brooch, Beyoncé's tour wardrobe, Zendaya's premieres: the maison dresses the moment again. Surrealism, it turns out, ages perfectly.
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Best for — Daniel Roseberry's gilded anatomy couture, from lobster dresses to golden toes
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