EXCLUSIVE: Schiaparelli Appoints Daniel Roseberry Creative Director

PARIS — From gray flannel to shocking pink taffeta: Schiaparelli said Tuesday it has tapped a veteran of New York-based label Thom Browne as its new artistic director. Daniel Roseberry will be in charge of all collections, projects and image at the Place Vendôme house, where he succeeds Bertrand Guyon, who held the post of design director. Roseberry joined Thom Browne in 2008 and was most recently design director of men’s and women’s collections at the brand, best known for its men’s suits with short pants. The 33-year-old Texan is an unexpected choice to head the house founded by Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927, and revived by Italian entrepreneur Diego Della Valle in 2013, confirming an industry trend for appointing second-in-command designers to top posts. Roseberry will bring to the task a skill for precision cutting and a taste for the surreal, central to Schiaparelli’s creative aesthetic. He hinted that he would also contribute a healthy dose of big-picture philosophy to the job. “Schiaparelli was a master of the modern; her work reflected the chaos and hope of the turbulent era in which she lived. Today we find ourselves asking similarly big, identity-shaping questions of our own: What does art look like? What is identity? How

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