For attendees at January’s presidential inauguration, outfits were carefully chosen as much for what they said and stood for as what they looked like. From the seen-everywhere symbolic purple to the world-spotlight championing of young, Black designers, the arrival of a new era was writ large in every dress, coat and suit at the Capitol.
But no look so visibly and immediately captured the feeling of hope in the air as the sweeping red silk faille skirt and navy cashmere jacket Lady Gaga wore to belt out the national anthem. A custom look by Schiaparelli’s Daniel Roseberry – whose outré elegance has owned every post-lockdown red carpet (most recently Cannes where Bella Hadid wowed in a golden lung dress) – the designer beloved by the kind of A-listers who boldly eschew predictable for interesting (think Beyoncé, Emma Corrin, Cynthia Erivo).
Earlier this year, Roseberry told Grazia that he still gets chillswhen he thinks about that massive moment. “The fact that we got to be a part of that in such a beautiful way will always be shocking to me,” he said.
The knockout detail on Gaga’s look was the hammered gold dove of peace brooch which perched on her chest. And now you can buy one your own. Today, Schiaparelli is finally releasing the brooch for sale at Schiaparelli and Dover Street Market. Available in four sizes, prices range from £590 to £1250. In keeping with the spirit in which it was designed and worn, all funds raised will be donated to the Born This Way Foundation, the charitable organization Gaga co-founded with her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, with the mission to support young people’s mental health and help build a ‘kinder and braver world’ for them.
“My daughter and I, along with the young people we work with every day, believe kindness is the way forward from the overlapping, ongoing crises of the last year and a half,” says Germanotta in a press release. “We couldn’t be more grateful to have the proceeds from the Schiaparelli Dove, a beautiful symbol of hope and new beginnings, benefit our work and mission to build a kinder, braver world”.