For the Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Haute Couture collection, Daniel Roseberry dives headfirst into the past to design what might just be the most forward-thinking Schiaparelli collection yet. Titled Back to the Future, this Haute Couture offering is a tribute to Elsa Schiaparelli’s departure from Paris in 1940 – a symbolic end to a golden age of fashion and a prelude to a new, fractured world. However, Roseberry doesn’t linger in nostalgia. Instead, he asks: If you strip away color, modernity, even technology, can you create something that feels like the future?

Spoiler: yes.

The collection is a surrealist dream in monochrome. Donegal wool and satine fabrics frame dinner suits embroidered with silver thread, while the Elsa jacket, with sharp-shoulders and an impeccable cut, anchors the line in both heritage and innovation. Corsets are gone, replaced with sculptural ease, dramatic waistlines, and silhouettes that whisper more than they shout. Then come the fantasy pieces: a diamanté “Apollo” cape exploding in galactic shimmer, a shell-embroidered tulle confection, and a gown with literal eyes painted, beaded, and cascading in silk.

In short, Roseberry’s genius is clear: the past isn’t a resting place, it’s raw material. In his hands, Schiaparelli’s legacy isn’t just remembered. It’s reimagined, reborn, and yes, wide awake.