Runway collections aren’t always the easiest things to mimic on the cheap, and I’m just referring to ready-to-wear. Couture pieces are tenfold more difficult, with each garment, down to the littlest detail, being handmade and intentional. Never is this more apparent than at Schiaparelli’s shows, which, thanks to the brand’s creative director Daniel Roseberry and its founder Elsa Schiaparelli’s legacy, are famously extravagant and artistic. But for its fall/winter 2023/2024 couture show, which took place in Paris just days ago, one small aspect of the offering was an exception to the aforementioned belief, allowing me (and anyone with $6) the ability to get the Schiaparelli aesthetic immediately following the show.
The magic is in a stretchy, black headband, something that everyone knows you can buy on the cheap at a variety of venues, from Target to CVS to, in this case, H&M. At the Schiaparelli show, the simple hair accessories were worn close to the face, blocking any flyaways from even daring to surface, and styled with extravagant and inventive couture garments, from a black-and-white hooded minidress with a sculpture-like skirt to a delicate-lace gown fit with one of the most impressive corsets I’ve seen. Though these looks will be far more difficult to recreate IRL, they can serve as inspiration for the color palette and silhouettes that will make for the chicest headband-clad ensembles.
Below, see some of the most beautiful ensembles from Schiaparelli’s fall/winter 2023/2024 haute couture show and shop the $7 H&M stretchy headband that’ll help you get the look for less.
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