It’s a mixed start to Fashion Week for the Italian brand Schiaparelli. Indeed, this one begins the year with a beautiful controversy which ignites the web and which it would have done well without. On the occasion of the Haute Couture Fashion Week show, Schiaparelli’s artistic director, Daniel Roseberry, unveiled his new spring-summer 2023 collection.
For the event, the youngest of the Kardashian siblings, Kylie Jenner had answered the call in an original outfit to say the least. It was in her all-black dress adorned with a lion’s head that the 25-year-old influencer and model appeared at the Petit Palais. A look that we could find in various variations, worn in particular by the ex of Kanye West, Irina Shayk or Naomi Campbell.
Nevertheless, this creation did not leave Internet users indifferent, nor certain personalities. To start with Anthony Delon. The son of the famous actor Alain Delon took his phone to denounce the message transmitted through this outfit. “Very bad“, he first wrote accompanied by a disapproving thumb emoji, in this story to find in our slideshow. “Stop the glorification of hunting trophies“, he then added.
A violent controversy
It must be recognized that the outfit can indeed be confusing as the animal heads seem more real than life. However, they are indeed fake hunting trophies, but the symbolism is obviously questionable since they are endangered wild animals whose heads are regularly used as hunting trophies, especially by poachers.
Especially since to obtain such results, the Italian brand used a contested method, as explained by the PETA association. “Silkworms were boiled alive and sheep were exploited for their fleeces to obtain the silk and wool used in making these fake animal heads. Schiaparelli should turn to materials of non-animal origin“, can we read on their social networks.
