New Delhi, April 11 -- If there's one haute couture house that has mastered the attention economy, it is Schiaparelli. Whether it's Natasha Poonawalla's metal bustier at the 2022 Met Gala, Kylie Jenner's lion-head dress from 2023, a simple white shirt with a pencil through the collar, or shoes with brass toes, the French fashion house has perfected a language of spectacle.

Creative director Daniel Roseberry is now carrying forward this design vocabulary of Italy's Elsa Schiaparelli, who founded the house almost a century ago in Paris. A self-taught designer, Elsa was famous for bringing wit, eccentricity and a sense of the unexpected into the everyday wardrobe. At a time when contemporaries like Coco Chanel were refining a language of el...