Purple Magazine
— The 30YRS Issue #38 F/W 2022

daniel roseberry the american designer reinventing schiaparelli surrealism

DANIEL ROSEBERRY

THE AMERICAN DESIGNER

REINVENTING

SCHIAPARELLI SURREALISM

interview by olivier zahm

photography by ola rindal

OLIVIER ZAHM — Daniel, what does it mean to offer today to the world surrealist and eccentric fashion, in a time when streetwear and sportswear dominate the aesthetic ?

DANIEL ROSEBERRY — I grew up in Plano, Texas, and I’ve always been inspired and driven by the fact that the world around me did not look like the world that I have in my head. This disparity between my imagination and my fantasy life versus reality and the not-so-beautiful parts of my everyday surroundings — my work is trying to reconcile those two things. As the world is going to shit, people have an appetite for a parallel reality.

 

OLIVIER ZAHM — People are craving to be transported somewhere else?

DANIEL ROSEBERRY — Exactly. If I had made these collections eight years ago,…

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