The Fall 2022 Haute Couture season officially kicked off Monday, and like every couture season, the fashion set is met with an especially exhilarating experience.
Dior opened Haute Couture Fashion Week by unveiling its Fall-Winter 2022 collection, as an ode to Ukrainian folklore, with the Tree of Life as a symbolic theme throughout. Iris van Herpen’s future-forward designs brought the metaverse IRL using technology to give a new meaning to couture savoir faire. And for a fashion first, Schiaparelli’s creative director Daniel Roseberry presented his collection at Musée des Arts Décoratifs on the day the museum celebrated the opening of the luxury maison’s retrospective dedicated to its founder Elsa Schiaparelli.
See all of the best looks from the Haute Couture runways GRAZIA USA has spotted thus far, and be sure to check back as we update the list as designers debut their high-end fashion collections throughout the week.
Schiaparelli
Daniel Roseberry looked to Schiaparelli’s past for his recent Haute Couture collection. Paying tribute to its former creative director, Christian Lacroix, Roseberry pulled from the archives highlighting some of Lacroix’s early designs for the house. “I think we sometimes get defensive when our critics accuse us of just wanting to make beautiful things. But what’s wrong with wanting to make beautiful things? It’s not the only important part of life, of course, but it is a part of life. And to make truly beautiful things isn’t actually that easy. But it is a privilege – and I’m grateful for it every day,” the creative director wrote in his show notes.
Iris van Herpen
For this anniversary showcase, Iris van Herpen made her debut into the metaverse in collaboration with Microsoft, fusing the realms of digital and physical Couture to create a first of its kind mixed reality runway experience. During the show, physical models exist in harmony with digital avatars, shown through HoloLens 2 headsets and augmented reality on mobile phones, while digital portraits of Ovid’s myths are newly envisioned to intersect the IRL show.
Dior
Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri invited Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko to create the set design of the Dior Fall-Winter 2022 haute couture show after seeing one of the artist’s pieces where painting and embroidery are combined to represent the tree of life, a symbol that runs through the entire collection and gives it its meaning.
