Spring/Summer ‘23, Teardrop Scarab
Roseberry writes on the Schiaparelli website that the house’s spring-summer 2023 collection was influenced by La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri’s narrative poem navigating the levels of hell, purgatory, and heaven’s celestial spheres.
“What appealed to me in the Inferno wasn’t just the theatrics of Dante’s creation,” Roseberry says. “it was how perfect a metaphor it provided for the torment that every artist or creative person experiences when we sit before the screen or the sketchpad or the dress form, when we have that moment in which we’re shaken by what we don’t know.”
I am, at this moment, shaken by how Schiaparelli’s cocoon-like bodice—a delicate pearl shell made hardy by elaborately arranged, gold leaf-topped leather—looks a lot like the Teardrop Scarab’s stinky ball of stuff. Hitting the Teardrop Scarab until it dies makes it give up its stuff, either topping off your flasks, or giving you an upgrade item. Do you think you can level up in hell?
