When Schiaparelli's Creative Director Marco Zanini left the house at the end of last year, no successor was announced. So, rather than a single designer creating the couture collection, it was designed by the atelier as a whole with an assortment of names contributing to the collaboration; from milliner Stephen Jones to house ambassador Farida Khelfa and art director Jean-Paul Goude. While an atelier-designed collection is often an interim measure between creative directors, houses like Maison Margiela (pre-Galliano) and Vetements (many of whom worked under Margiela) have taken it as a defining point of their design. The result at Schiaparelli was a whimsical yet elegant collection, documented for us by David Luraschi who interpreted the rich ornament of the maison with these hyper-real coloured multiple exposure images. And, if this is the result of their atelier, we hope they stick with it.
