Razor Sharp

Latex spikes and leather gimp masks: Schiaparelli FW22 is pure avant-garde kink
Fashion | 8 March 2022

Three years into Daniel Roseberry’s tenure at Schiaparelli, the designer has grown tired of having to answer for who the Schiaparelli women ought to be. “Who isn’t she?” Roseberry responds this season, adding that, actually, she needn’t be a woman at all.

If Schiaparelli’s surreal, avant-garde and oft-campy styles have taught us anything in this life, it’s that they needn’t be defined at all, because in the same vein as Chaka Khan, Schiaparelli is every woman. She wears dandy-ish pinstripe suits and paints on whimsical moustaches, she fawns of leather totes chiselled in the visage of a six-packed Grecian god, and takes ample care to highlight her assets in swirling cone bralets studded with metal beads. 

There’s a penchant for drama in her collection of flashy millinery, some with huge sheeny brims that act as dark halos. And though her dresses might be embroidered with soft floral brocades, she’ll be sure to finish the look with a bladed ode to Edward Scissorhands. This isn’t the only spiked appendage on offer either, knife edges abound in sharp bodices, crazy headgear and razor-sharp latex gloves. Cross her, and you’ll know about it…

GALLERYCatwalk images from Schiaparelli WOMENS-FALL-WINTER-22





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