Thank Gene Kelly for the cliché of an American in Paris. The moniker was also a 1951 movie, inspired by the music of George Gershwin, in which Kelly plays a WWII vet pursuing his craft as a starving artist who unknowingly falls in love with the girlfriend of his French singer pal. Today, American Daniel Roseberry finds himself following his love of fashion and art in different circumstances as he helms one of the most famous French haute couture houses, Schiaparelli. While navigating both his professional and personal life in the French capital since 2019, Roseberry has gracefully managed to eschew most stereotypes associated with the condition of being an American in Paris or, for that matter, a Frenchman in Paris. But even the poised, thoughtful, handsome, and well-spoken designer admits he doesn’t always succeed.
spoke to Roseberry on a late July Friday afternoon in Paris via Zoom—an often lonely place for those still stuck in the city in the summer, like Roseberry, who was wrapping up some fittings. He
