Schiaparelli and the Luminous Body
A stream of consciousness on Daniel Roseberry's Fall/Winter 2026/27 collection and the homo luminous upgrade.
I've decided I like Daniel Roseberry. The artistic director of Schiaparelli.
And I like him the way you decide you like someone after they say one true thing (and you know how rare that is).
His latest collection really had me in my feelings, but in a good way lol. He called the collection The Abyss. The Call of the Void. L'appel du vide, the French say ... that quiet pull toward what you can't yet name. And instead of turning away from it, he walked straight in, and made a whole collection out of the not-knowing, which sounds super lofty and emo but I think it’s more practical than you might think. There is a kind of unknown that scares us, and there is a kind that calls to us, and Daniel's latest collection is the latter.
This latest Schiaparelli couture collection opened Paris Haute Couture Week on a mirrored runway (the mirror will make sense later) at the Petit Palais, with his own altered voice playing overhead while women walked in silicone, latex, prosthetics, and real flowers. He wasn't explaining what they were wearing. He was asking questions he didn't have answers to.
In speaking about the inspiration for this Fall/Winter 2026/27 line he said:
"It's such a luxury to ask questions. It's a luxury to not know."
I sat with that. I was like oh damn, okay … Because as much as I appreciate the spirit of what he's saying, it also stung a little.
Most people feel they don't have the luxury of asking the big questions this way, but the harder truth right now is that we don't have the luxury of not asking them. Not right now. The big questions about our lives, our humanity, who we are, are showing up whether we invite them in or not. Careers are pivoting. Relationships are ending or reforming mid-air. So many people are standing in the middle of a transition they didn't choose and can't yet see the other side of. And in that place, "it's a luxury to ask questions and not know" lands differently. Not as an invitation to enjoy the not-knowing, or to be insensitive or tone deaf or out of touch, but as a reminder that maybe we have a right to ask questions, to trust the void, and to feel safe to receive even when we don't know what's coming next and we're not sure it's safe to trust that it'll work out.
That's Daniel's perspective, and I think it's fascinating. Now, he gets to call the unknown a luxury because he has the support of a team who will follow him into the abyss, who follow him into the void. He said that himself, and he said it with gratitude. And I think that's beautiful. But I also think there's something even more radical underneath what he's pointing at, which is that we are moving through one of the greatest awakenings of human consciousness. And in that context, the questions aren't luxuries. They are requirements.
Then there's a line in Daniel's voiceover that caught me. "Cancel your plans. Become your dress. Become your bustier. Become your trousers."
On the surface that sounds like authentic, one-of-a-kind nonsense. Become the thing you wear? What? But I don't think that's what he's saying. I think he's talking about embodiment ... that it's not that we become the objects we put on, but that the things we wear become extensions of a self that is fully present, fully here. And maybe it's less about clothing at all than it is about this: becoming more human is just becoming more aware of who we are. What we are. Not some lofty concept about being more conscious of what you wear. Something simpler and harder than that. Just you know ... being all the way in your body, in your life, in your knowing.
And then he said the thing that made me pause the video.
"We are light beings having a human experience."
Now. That's not a new phrase. You’ve heard me talk about this here before. And people have been saying versions of it for a long time. But I've rarely heard it spoken by someone who isn't positioning himself as a spiritual teacher. And that's actually the point, and the problem. Spiritual life and real life were never supposed to be two separate things. A spiritual teacher can't be the only one allowed to say spiritual things. When we bring our whole selves into our whole lives, we start to see the connectedness in everything ... including a runway show.
It's just refreshing that someone is choosing to insert that conversation into their work, because it is true of all of us and all of life. It just can't be a conversation reserved for the spiritual community. "Spiritual community" isn't even the right frame here, because we are all spiritual beings, and we are all in community with each other, whether we name it that way or not. We talk about having a spirit. We talk about having a soul. Why doesn't that have a connection to our day-to-day life unless we happen to have a spiritual practice? Many people are, for the first time, waking up to that question right now. How do I access that part of myself? What does it actually mean? And I think Daniel is doing what I believe couture should be doing ... creating a space to be curious, to think deeply, to ask questions, and to let those questions affect who we are and what we believe is true for us.
Daniel also said something that I think deserves more attention than it's gotten. He said that couture starts to feel less like clothes and more like a mirror of where we are in the culture–hence the mirrored runway floor. And my spirit went off because I think that is really key. Because if a runway show can carry that conversation, then whatever is moving through the collective has to be showing up in it somewhere. The clothes stop being just clothes (it’s not even clothes, it’s art). They become the surface where something larger becomes visible.
Because I know how people feel about fashion at this level. I know people look at something like a Schiaparelli show and think, what does this have to do with my life?! There are wars happening. There are natural disasters. Governments are collapsing. People need food and water. And all of that is true. Full stop. But fashion is a container, closer to a museum, or the internet, or social media; it is a place where all the ideas moving through collective consciousness can find form, so we can have a look at it. Try to understand it. Interrogate it. Wrestle with what it may mean for who we are and how we get from one day to the next. Anyone who’s ever seen an old Pyer Moss show knows what I mean.
Fashion (like anything else) only becomes useless when we allow ourselves to be consumed by it. But when we allow it to test what we actually believe about who we are and what is possible for life and human flourishing, then it becomes something much more generative than its original intent. Or perhaps that was its original intent and we have strayed?
And this is also where I want to name what I'm actually doing in a piece like this. Part of my work here is being a bridge. I have so many conversations with people who don't know how to reconcile something that feels extravagant, wasteful, excessive with the realities of ordinary life. That's real, and I'm not going to pretend it isn't. But there is purpose even in what looks silly or irrelevant on the surface, if you're willing to look for it. There is beauty in everything, and there is something to be learned, even from the things that seem furthest from your everyday experience. That is exactly why Daniel's framing of couture as a mirror matters so much (I mean the runway floor was literally a mirror). Almost nobody watching that runway can afford what's on it. And even the ones who could would have nowhere to wear it. So it can't be about that. It has to be about something else. And that something else is what Daniel and I are both pointing at.
So what is moving through the collective right now? What is the mirror actually showing us?
This is where Alberto Villoldo's work comes in. He's one of my favorite people, and a medical anthropologist and shaman who has spent over four decades studying the healing traditions of the Amazon and the Andes. What Alberto describes in his work is the human upgrade or evolution we are going through from Homo Sapien to Homo Luminous. Homo Sapien meaning “thinking man” and Homo luminous meaning “illuminated or enlightened man.”
Alongside his wife and partner, Marcela Lobos, he studied with the Laika, the Earthkeepers. These shamans understood that we have a Luminous Energy Field surrounding the physical body, an information field that organizes and informs our health, our emotional life, our very biology. And Alberto and Marcela are not the only ones talking about this. It's arriving from several different doors at once. Pam Gregory, a British astrologer who's work I’ve been following been studying and practicing astrology for nearly five decades, describes the same shift through the sky, but she talks about in more as an unprecedented cosmic energy influx that's activating dormant DNA in our bodies and accelerating our intuition, especially from this past July, and about time itself dissolving as we move toward the light body.
And then there’s Dr. David Clements, a physicist (living sciences, not theoretical) with a PhD from Oxford, describes it through the body itself. He says the human being is evolving into what he calls an immaculate receiver, transmitter, and transducer of living light. His view is that light picks up and carries information as it moves through matter, and that when we sit in sunlight we are literally absorbing energetic codes. So, a shaman, an astrologer, and an Oxford physicist are all saying the same thing. And what they're all describing is that we are, right now, in the middle of an upgrade. Not between generations, but within a generation. The human body is changing to receive more light, and therefore more information. And that is not metaphor. Daniel Roseberry knows this; people sat in this Schiaparelli show and hailed its brilliance … but I wonder if they actually understand what is happening?
Think about it like this. We already accept water can be fluid, solid, and gas. One substance, three states. So, we understand that matter holds more than one state. We just haven't extended that understanding to ourselves. We have a physical body, a mental body, and a soul or spirit body. And yes, we also have an energy body, or a light body. Acupuncture addresses it. Craniosacral therapy addresses it. Shamanic healing addresses it. These modalities have been working with the body's luminous field for centuries, long before the language caught up.
Light is information. That's why we call it illumination; to illuminate something is to gain understanding. Light can hold information the way a flash drive holds data. And having a light body means the body is changing, evolving, to receive more information. Look at what's been happening: global heatwaves, intensity of solar activity like the coronal mass ejections, and record breaking X-class solar flares ... all of that is light pouring in. And not so we just sweat our asses off but to help bring in more information, information we now need.
And astrologically, we all know, we've been moving through once-in-a-lifetime transits. The outer planets have all changed signs that doesn’t normally happen in the space of 2 years. Most of the outer planets are in air and fire right signs right now–air creates more fire, fire is more light. The Uranus square to the lunar nodes was exact on June 12, with all the outer planets synchronizing at the same degree this July in what astrologers are calling unprecedented cosmic choreography. So many different cultural traditions, indigenous, astrological, shamanic, scientific have pointed to this specific window as the moment when the human upgrade accelerates. When the move into a newer earth becomes undeniable.
That is what Daniel Roseberry is referencing in a fucking fashion show. Whether he would frame it in those exact words or not. The fact remains he is discussing this, the luminous body. The body that receives light, holds light, and uses that light as creative intelligence to build a new future.
I have to say. Schiaparelli has no real purpose for existing in the way we usually define purpose for a fashion house. Even their commercial aspect is unambitious. They're not really here to show you what you need to wear or to buy. The house doesn't care about that, and Daniel was clear about it in his voiceover on the runway and in his public interviews. The commercial success they're having as a brand is happening naturally and organically, he said. It's agenda-free. They're not trying to sell anyone anything. They want to inspire people. They want to connect with people.
And I think that is lovely and frustrating in the same breath. Because so many of us need to be commercial in order to have a livelihood. So many of us are still in a paradigm where you have to manufacture desire in order to eat. But that's slowly changing. And what Daniel is tapping into, whether he knows it astrologically or not, is the energy of the Aquarian Age. Pluto in Aquarius (outer planet shift) is defining this era ... power moving back to the people. People wanting to be with people. People wanting to inspire and support each other rather than be sold to or leveraged. When what you're building comes from a genuinely humanist place, that resonance is what generates the abundance and the visibility. Not the strategy. Not the machinery. The resonance. Human decency cannot not be performed, it is felt.
Daniel has a really great grasp on how to work with the energies of this time. He's doing it in a way that feels true, intuitive, and instinctive–as it should be. And I think that alignment is what's making Schiaparelli pop off right now. His leadership is aligned with Aquarian energy and the values of this new era. Like he said, we are existing outside of the machinery, building desire through connection, through creativity, and moving away from the matrix and these tragic, circular, karmic cycles that have shaped human expression for thousands of years.
And then there's the part I keep coming back to. The way these women looked walking down that runway.
Real flowers sewn against silicone. Sugar-water-preserved petals set directly next to latex. The most organic material there is, side by side with the most synthetic, on the same body, in the same look. And it felt like more than contrast for contrast's sake. It felt like the actual choice point we find ourselves at right now with technology. Do we allow ourselves to fall into the inorganic, the machine of tech? Or do we evolve with organic technology ... tech that leverages living sciences, like plant life, or water, or frequency? And within one collection, Daniel is trying to merge the two. Dope.
The prosthetics added parts to the human body that don't exist. The silicone bustiers were lit from within. The fabrics bent and reflected light in ways that made the models look less like human beings and more like ... well let’s not be shy ... galactic beings. Celestial. Otherworldly. But not in a way that felt theatrical. It felt like he was handling something real. Like he was channeling what bodies from other worlds might actually look like. Bodies fashioned for somewhere else. Bodies that easily channel light, that easily receive what the shamans call light codes.
And maybe that sounds like a reach if you haven't been paying attention. But the Uranus square to the lunar nodes, the transit I wrote about in my open letter to Steven Spielberg on Disclosure Day, is about exactly this. We're in a period where communication with other star systems, other forms of intelligence, is only going to increase. It is certainly not going to diminish lol. Life beyond Earth isn't the outrageous concept it used to be. We live on a planet orbiting in outer space. We're out here friends. We are not alone out here. If anyone's alien, we are. And you know how I feel about that word …
When I think about people we've called geniuses, heroes, savants, auteurs ... people like Nikola Tesla or Harriet Tubman, what set them apart wasn't that they were somehow above the rest of us. I think it’s just that they were more open. They'd found a way, consciously or not, to let more information in. To activate their own light body so they could receive from dimensions and intelligences that most people haven't learned to access yet. And we can do the same thing. That capacity isn't reserved for a creative director at a couture house, an inventor who died a century ago, or a seer who walked people to freedom.
At a certain point, effort will only get you so far. You become great, by channeling that which is greater.
The information is available to ALL OF US. And that information, that light, is what shapes how we create, how we relate to each other, how we understand where the human race is actually headed and what is needed now. And maybe that's where I'd take it further than Daniel: the void isn't the absence of light. It's where light enters in.
That's the deeper thing this collection is pointing toward. Daniel Roseberry stood in a dark room after his last show, turned around, and had a literal vision of what this season was going to look like–start to finish. The mirrored floors. The color palette. The silver chrome. The minute the last show finished, this one announced itself. That's not strategy. That's reception! That's a light body doing what it was designed to do!
And maybe couture, at its best, is just that ... a mirror. Not of what we should wear. Of what we're becoming.
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