This is, by Schiaparelli standards, so run-of-the-mill. It's a bummer. Gabrielle Union can carry off so much, too. Which is why I thought to myself... are things all good in Union-Wadeville? Because this COULD have a whiff of a revenge dress about it.
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 27: Gabrielle Union attends the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
It looks sillier in the natural light, somehow, when she's posing on the way in and looking morose in what amounts to a series of Glamour Don't bars. (Sigh, future generations will NEVER understand the glories of those. Hell, the current generation doesn't.)
Regina King in Schiaparelli
This is also sedate, but glam. But Regina King is low-key like that.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
THAT is suitably dramatic for our Sylvie, but do I detect underboob poking out? RETHINK.
Carla Bruni
She is just tremendously chic.
Lynda Carter
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 27: Lynda Carter attends the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
"HELLOOOOOO, look who else got invited?????"
Lynda Carter
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 27: Lynda Carter attends the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
Wonder Woman, in fact, had a hell of a time hamming it up for the cameras outside.
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 27: Lynda Carter attends the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
I don't know what the directive was, but I love it.
Pixie Lott and Oliver Cheshire
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 27: Pixie Lott and Oliver Cheshire attends the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
She looks like he told her they were taking the convertible with the top down.
Didi Stone in Rahul Mishra
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 27: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Didi Stone attends the Rahul Mishra Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pierre Suu/Getty Images)
She looks like a reverse Valentine -- something you send to tell someone you love to hate them.
