At Paris Couture Week FW25, Daniel Roseberry unleashed a cinematic spectacle for Schiaparelli’s Fall/Winter 2025–2026 Haute Couture presentation—equal parts radical poetry and high-fashion theatre. Held inside the gilded halls of the Petit Palais, the show—titled “Back to the Future”—didn’t just nod to the past; it collided eras, emotions, and archetypes into a vision that was unflinching, erotic, mechanical, and mythic.

Opening with Cardi B in a sculptural black bustier and fringe neckline, cradling a live raven outside the venue, the tone was immediately otherworldly. Roseberry took Elsa Schiaparelli’s surrealist legacy and molded it into a modern allegory—exploring the fragility of identity, the armor of femininity, and the raw power of transformation.

From sharp silver tailoring to anatomical breastplates, pearl-trimmed bustiers, and rhinestone thongs peeking beneath satin fishtail gowns, every look was a study in duality. The body became canvas, weapon, and symbol. Cyberpunk met mythology. Couture precision fused with dream-state rebellion.

There was no fear of excess, yet everything was deliberate—fetishistic nods, futuristic silhouettes, and pulsing accessories like the mechanical human heart necklace made clear that Schiaparelli remains couture’s most thrilling paradox: grounded in craft, suspended in surrealism.

This was not just a fashion show—it was a farewell to restraint, a manifesto for reinvention, and a signal flare from a house standing at the precipice of something wilder, darker, and undeniably more provocative.