Cardi B has live, frying Crow in his arm at Wild Paris Couture Week Look
Paris (AP) -The Couture Week in Paris did not open not with sequins or red carpet forests, but with an omen of black feathers.
Cardi B, wrapped in a personalized Fringe Graphic Schiaparelli dress, stopped under the golden columns of Pétido Palais, holding a living crow on her arm.
The bird graznó, looked and almost pounced, establishing the tone for a show that rose directly to the surrealist.
It was an appropriate image for Schiaparelli. Elsa Schiaparelli, the founder of the house, built her legend in the 1930s to weave the unexpected obstenest dresses, shoe hats and, yes, animals) in the heart of high fashion.
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That legacy surpassed Daniel Roseberry’s Fall 2025 collection, a pure black and white show, staged as if the city itself had been drained in color, leaving only a marked contrast and raw emotion.
Inside, mood was cinematographic: sharp tailoring, sweep dresses, shine touches disc flashing like a movie on the catwalk.
But if the house has been criticized in the past to trust the extreme corsetry and manipulation of the body, this season marked a change. Roseberry, perhaps paying attention to critics, left his exclusive corset silhouette. Instead: a freer and more elastic exploration of the body, echoing the restless spirit of Schiaparelli.
Schiaparelli helped create the mold
Roseberry said the collection was inspired by the moment in 1940, when Elsa Schiaparelli fled from Paris occupied by the Nazis for New York, a period “when life and art were in the precipice: at sunset of elegance and at the end of the world as we knew it.”
Here, that tension was alive in every aspect: the reinvented file codes, but with a restless impulse towards the future. Wavy dresses such as automobile bodies, arched hips in impossible forms, Lyon High Couting Tapes agitated as kinetic sculptures
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However, the show was more than show. This was haute couture in its most essential form: a factory of ideas for the entire fashion industry, without restrictions due to tendencies.
“Chanel was interested in how clothes could be practical for women; Elsa was interested in what fashion could be,” Roseberry added.
It is this, the energy, the transformation of memory, myth and pure technique into something never seen before, which makes haute sewing vital, even when the world hastened towards AI and rapid fashion disposable.
The origins of Haute Couture
The configuration only increased the effect. The Petit Palais is currently the home of an exhibition on Charles Worth, the English Englishman who invented haute couture by bringing art and crafts to Paris.
The symmetry was irresistible: in these halls, the past of Schiaparelli collided with the future of fashion, remembering everything why haute couture is important: not as a museum piece, but as a living laboratory for risk, reinvention and radical beauty.
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A decade after its relaunch, Schiaparelli has found commercial traction and has become a fixed element in the world’s red carpets, a rare feat in the current luxury market.
But above all, the power of the brand lies in its ability to surprise.
On the day of the inauguration, while the Cardi B crow threatened to take the flight, Schiaparelli showed that in Paris, the most powerful magic of fashion remains the unexpected.