Editor’s Letter
There’s the Best Dressed Issue, and then there is…the best dress. I flew to Paris for the couture shows and went to an appointment with Daniel Roseberry, the artistic director of Maison Schiaparelli. The showroom was in a glittering location on Place Vendôme, but it was what I saw there that took my breath away. Room after room was filled with Daniel’s wildly inventive couture—and then I suddenly came upon The Dress: a black column with pink and orange balloon sleeves. I’m a pragmatist when it comes to fashion, but this was an “audible gasp.” We were planning our couture cover shoot with Zendaya and immediately requested that dress, as well as a minidress with dramatic rose-covered sleeves. When Zendaya and her longtime co-conspirator, Law Roach, saw the dresses on set,…