This weekend Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, the UK’s first exhibition devoted to the House of Schiaparelli, opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The blockbuster show explores Schiaparelli’s artistic collaborations, starting in the 1920s, and is produced in collaboration with the fashion house under current designer Daniel Roseberry.
The exhibition catalogue, edited by curators Sonnet Stanfill and Lydia Caston, is out in May.
Image: Abrams.
The V&A is also offering courses to accompany the Schiaparelli exhibit. An embroidery workshop with Hand & Lock filled up quickly; a new V&A Academy online course is posted here.
In Paris, as the V&A show was getting ready to open, Roseberry looked back to interwar Schiaparelli for his Fall 2025 haute couture collection: “There’s something about that era that felt mournful and also turbocharged at the same time,” he said. (source: WWD)
“Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art” is at the V&A South Kensington through November 8, 2026.
Read more about Schiaparelli in Samantha Conti’s exhibition review for WWD, or see my earlier posts:
- As Worn by Schiaparelli, 1941
- Schiaparelli Patterns, Part 1 (interwar)
- Schiaparelli Patterns, Part 2 (1949–1954)
- Elsa, Miuccia, Elsa
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