AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Daniel Roseberry, sitting in the sunlit atelier of Schiaparelli in Place Vendome, is in the hive of French fashion royalty. As the house’s current creative director, it would be easy for him to be consumed by the epic history that surrounds him, created by the maison’s founder Elsa Schiaparelli, and in particular be overwhelmed by her surrealist collaborations. The trick, however, has been to tread lightly through it all.
“Every season is sort of like taking a little piece … A little goes a long way, especially with surrealism from the 1930s. It’s such a unique, identifiable aesthetic and period, so I think we try and wear it lightly,” Roseberry explains. “There’s always one reference from Elsa’s world that comes forward at the beginning of each season and announces itself as something that feels good, that feels relevant. That could be the Salvador Dali ‘bow’ dress, the jacket made out of the drawers, the compact case that looks like the telephone dial, or it even could be a button she did with [Swiss sculptor Alberto] Giacometti,
