There are statement shoulders. There are statement collars. And now we have whatever Schiaparelli has decided nipples should be doing in 2026, modelled by Emma Corrin.
The actor has once again delighted – and slightly bamboozled – us after arriving at Schiaparelli’s Paris Couture Week show wearing what can only be described as the world’s most glamorous angry bird.
Taking a front-row seat at Daniel Roseberry’s latest couture presentation on Monday, the 30-year-old’s feather-covered jacket was so theatrical it looked less like clothing and more like an exotic creature that had politely agreed to perch on their body for the afternoon.
Alongside the multi-coloured plumage, it featured padded shoulders and a collar that climbed so high it covered the Crown and Nosferatu actor’s ears and was shaped like a pair of little wings protecting their neck.
But naturally, despite all of this, everyone’s eyes were drawn elsewhere.
For emerging from the front of the jacket were two sharply pointed structures jutting proudly from the chest like a pair of extremely confident, aggressively aerodynamic nipples.
Or perhaps horns? Or claws – or talons? Or perhaps, somehow all the above. But whatever they were, they immediately stole the show.
Matching protrusions appeared on the back of the jacket, which finished in a sweeping feathered tail, up and away from the body, giving Corrin the appearance of someone moments away from taking flight.
Corrin, who will star as Lizzie Bennet in Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation later this year, had been spotted at Wimbledon just two days earlier, and it’s difficult to imagine Centre Court officials appreciating a feathered collar large enough to block the view of everyone in the rows behind.
Couture week though, thankfully, is exactly the place for garments that prioritise spectacle over basic concepts like peripheral vision.
‘Yesss they look like hummingbirds!’ Gi Hamilton commented on a video of the look on Instagram, while stylist Juliet Cuerden predicted: ‘Years from now, we’ll look back at this era of Schiaparelli the way we look back at Galliano for Dior.’
‘Absolutely insaaaaane,’ John Villa chimed in, with his heart-eye emojis confirming this was a compliment, while Luna De Casanova quipped: ‘For a 10am show?’
However, as with all bold creativity, it also really wasn’t vibing for everyone, with Mark Trotta calling the piece ‘hideous’ and Lari Elka asking: ‘What in the Hieronymus Bosch hell?’
It was a headline-grabbing day for Schiaparelli and its creative director Roseberry too, given that yesterday evening Zendaya donned another creation from the label in London at The Odyssey’s world premiere.
It was reportedly flown in especially from Paris Fashion Week that morning too by the star’s stylist extraordinaire, Law Roach.
For the Challengers’ actress, the dress was an ode to her role as Athena in the Christopher Nolan-directed epic, mimicking a marble statue with its corset and finishing in a shimmering beaded skirt that gave the illusion of a fountain.