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The Agony and the Ecstasy Haute Couture Spring–Summer 2026 transforms couture into pure emotion. Inspired by Daniel Roseberry’s experience at the Sistine Chapel, the collection merges sculptural silhouettes, surreal forms, and vibrant color to celebrate craftsmanship while inviting us to feel rather than think.
By Editorial Staff
Inspired by a transformative visit to the Sistine Chapel, this collection explores the emotional power of art, where structure meets surrender, and discipline gives way to feeling. Like Michelangelo’s ceiling, which shifted art from narration to emotion, the collection moves beyond appearance to embrace sensation: not what couture looks like, but how it feels to create it.
Sharp strokes evolve into sculptural silhouettes, scorpion tails, serpentine curves, and fantastical avian forms defying gravity. Vibrant hues inspired by birds of paradise, pinks, blues, saffron, ignite explosive shapes layered in neon tulle, hand-cut lace, resin-dipped feathers, and crystalline textures. Each look becomes a character, a creature suspended between rigor and imagination.
Rooted in the precision of couture yet liberated by fantasy, the collection celebrates the mastery of the ateliers while reclaiming couture’s true purpose: to awaken emotion. More than clothing, it is an invitation, to look up, to feel deeply, and to unchain the imagination.
This article is an original editorial analysis produced by [DIBA magazine]
Research and references are used for contextual accuracy.