A wardrobe, yes. But a Schiaparelli wardrobe.Of all Elsa Schiaparelli’s legacies, her most enduring might have been her marriage of art and fashion. Elsa became famous for her couture, but her career debut was those then- groundbreaking trompe l’oeil knits. Pure sportswear, they were an aggressive rebuke of everything frilly and flouncy, knitwear that was easy to slip on—and off (you can think of them as the athleisure wear of their age). Those early sweaters were among the first of her many “viral” moments over the course of her brief but influential career.Even now, decades later, her work’s now-signature hallmarks—the codes, we’d call them today: the keyhole icon, the anatomical references, the measuring tape details—still feel eerily relevant. The house had always been renowned not only for its shapes or symbols, but because, above all, its clothes didn’t look like anything else out there. (As Elsa famously said, “No one knows how to say ‘Schiaparelli,’ but everyone knows what it means.”) One of the challenges of making clothes now, in an age of rampant branding, is honoring Elsa’s codes while, at the same time, not reducing them to logos. Like Elsa, our focus is on clothes: wardrobe staples that help a woman feel more like herself. In this, we look again to Elsa, whose most resplendent fantasies were always countered with simple, honest silhouettes. The result was a look whose chic rose not from gimmicks but from something heartfelt and sincere.We also know that our accessories are key—we can’t keep our classic Face Bag in stock—and this season, we’ve added a new style, The Schiap, our trapunto baguette, which alludes to the design of the house’s groundbreaking 1937 fragrance, Shocking. For The Schiap, I wanted to riff on a classic profile rather than chase a trend; simple feels perfect to me right now. As always, all our bags are detailed with hammered brass hardware coated in our unique 24k gold finish, and as always, the chains on our bags are handmade, one link at a time.- Daniel Roseberry
