Daniel Roseberry wants you to steal a glance at his latest collection. It may just look familiar.
Ahead of his Paris Haute Couture Week show Jan. 26, the Schiaparelli designer revealed that his jewelry designs will be elevated recreations of the opulent diamonds stolen from the Louvre Museum last October.
“I was going home for a walk from the office, it was right after the jewels had been stolen from the Louvre,” Daniel, 41, told Vanity Fair in an interview published Jan. 26. “And I was like, wouldn’t it be nice to reimagine the Louvre jewels that were stolen?”
In the movie-like heist, four masked burglars stole nine pieces of jewelry—worth around $102 million—from the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Oct. 19, which have yet to be recovered. From start to finish, it took the thieves seven minutes to nab priceless necklaces, tiaras and brooches. Authorities confirmed that museum staff sustained no injuries during the robbery.
Among the stolen goods was an emerald and diamond necklace and a pair of matching earrings that Napoleon Bonaparte gave to his wife Marie Louise, as well as a sapphire necklace by Napoleon’s stepdaughter Hortense.
