Schiaparelli Spring 2026 Collection
On the rooftop of the Pompidou Center — currently closed for renovations — Daniel Roseberry staged one of his most restrained yet impactful Schiaparelli shows to date. With panoramic views stretching from Sacré-Coeur to the Eiffel Tower, guests like Kylie Jenner, Rosalía, and FKA Twigs gathered to witness a collection that balanced extreme drama with surprising wearability.
Roseberry found his starting point in the museum’s previous exhibition dedicated to sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. The artist’s clean lines and essential palette echoed throughout the collection, where minimalist tailoring was enhanced by curved waistbands, pebble-shaped pockets, and oversized cutouts on everything from leather shirts to knit tube dresses. Hammered ruffles rippled across cropped tops paired with cream trousers, while bias-cut evening gowns shimmered in panels of satin, suspended from delicate chain straps that hovered like jewelry over sheer bases. The usual gilded theatrics were pared back, save for a few sculptural nose jewels.
“I wanted something radically wearable, but still with that extreme drama that makes the air shift when you walk into a room wearing Schiap,” Roseberry said post-show. He deliberately set aside the hourglass corsetry of past seasons, letting fabric dictate silhouette instead. “It was a revelation to put on bias-cut dresses and watch how the body itself did the work. This was really about going back to the house’s roots.”
Those roots include provocation — a Schiaparelli signature since Elsa’s collaborations with surrealist artists. Roseberry revisited the legendary Tears Dress of 1938, designed with Salvador Dalí, whose trompe-l’œil illusion of ripped flesh reappeared here in 3D silk crêpe panels shredded at the edges. At times, his creations were barely more than fragments of cloth: Kendall Jenner closed the show in a sheer black negligée, a reminder that whether maximalist or minimalist, a Schiaparelli woman never fades into the background.
The timing felt pointed. With the house preparing for a major exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum next year, Roseberry delivered a collection that simultaneously honored its surrealist past and carved out a modern, wearable vision for its future — a conversation between art and fashion staged in the perfect setting: a museum in transformation.
