From Christian Dior, Schiaparelli, and Chanel to Valentino, Givenchy, and more, haute couture is the Olympics of fashion. It's where the best handiwork, techniques, embroidery, and construction come to a head on the runways in Paris in the form of veritable confections and perfectly tailored suiting. Here, the best looks from this week's array of collections à Paris.
Schiaparelli
For American-born Daniel Roseberry’s second couture collection for Schiaparelli, the designer embraced the client who doesn’t only consider haute couture for the red carpet and the gala circuit. The show’s opening look, a va-va-voom blouse paired with an embroidered suit, set the stage for what was to come: an ode to a multifaceted, modern woman—one who embraces her masculinity, femininity, and sexuality simultaneously, and with an ample dose of glamour.
The Americans watching likely resonated with the more casual side of the collection: cropped jackets paired with wide-legged trousers and artfully draped dresses with thoughtful, athletic cutaways, all contrasted with nowhere-near-casual embroidery. But Roseberry’s American roots made themselves even more known as the collection progressed in the form of swimsuit-inspired necklines on ball gowns and trompe l’oeil tan lines built into crystal turtlenecks, which were styled underneath fully embellished columns.
Those were just some of his subtle nods to ’80s and ’90s fashion Stateside, and the juxtaposition of American tropes on the Paris runways was whimsical, cheeky and delightful—as Schiaparelli, historically, tends to be. —Carrie Goldberg
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