Schiaparelli creative director Daniel Roseberry opened Paris Haute Couture Week this morning by recreating the French Crown Jewels stolen from the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery last October. He featured these replicas in the fashion house’s spring 2026 couture runway at the Petit Palais, a venue with a number of similarities to the scene of the crime.
Built by architect Charles Girault for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, it shares the same Beaux-Arts architectural language as the Louvre. Its four wings wrap around a semi-circular garden bordered by a richly decorated peristyle, with interiors that feature similar painted ceilings and gilded details to those in the Apollo Gallery. And, as actress Teyana Taylor arrived in the “heist jewels” and the models walked down the runway wearing them, it almost seems like those stolen pieces finally returned back to their home in Paris.
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The Apollo Gallery is the Louvre’s 60-meter gilded corridor that has housed the remaining French Crown Jewels since 1887. Commissioned by Louis XIV in 1661, the gallery took over 200 years to complete and later served as the prototype for Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. It made headlines on October 19, 2025, when four masked robbers descended through a window and escaped with $102 million worth of diamonds, emeralds, and pearls in seven minutes. The heist emptied eight of the 23 pieces displayed there and forced the gallery to close temporarily, leaving behind three empty cases in one of the most significant spaces in the Louvre.
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Two of the most notable stolen pieces were crowns worn by Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III. Taylor arrived in a reimagined version of one of these crowns—adorned with pearls and diamonds—along with Roseberry’s take on Empress Eugenie’s bodice front. In the show, Roseberry recreated an emerald and diamond necklace, a sapphire from Napoleon’s stepdaughter Hortense, and the other crown, among other pieces.
“I was going home for a walk from the office, it was right after the jewels had been stolen from the Louvre,” Roseberry told Vanity Fair. “And I was like, Wouldn’t it be nice to reimagine the Louvre jewels that were stolen?”
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