Stunning lion head dress by Kylie Jenner

(CNN) – There is nothing more ferocious than using a predator as an ornament. Kylie Jenner had all eyes on the Schiaparelli Couture runway in Paris on Monday when she arrived in a strapless black velvet gown embellished with a life-size lion’s head, a sneak peek into her spring-summer couture collection. Summer 2023 from the label, which debuted moments later.

The realistic mock cape (with a carefully designed mane) covered Jenner’s entire torso. She completed the outfit with black Schiaparelli shoes. With fingers embossed in gold.

Kylie Jenner attended the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2023 show on Monday wearing a funky accessory. Credit: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images

Moments after he sat down, Jenner’s surreal lion accessory was seen back on the runway along with a host of other animal ensembles. According to the show notes, the collection is inspired by Dante’s “Inferno” and the nine circles of hell, a metaphor for the doubt and creative torment all artists experience, the creative director wrote. Daniel Rosebery.

Literally inspired by the three beasts that appear in the fourteenth-century poem, Rosebery reimagines the tiger, lion, and wolf in the group, “representing lust, pride, and greed respectively”. Naomi Campbell wore a black fur coat with a wolf’s head protruding from the left shoulder, while Canadian model Shalom Harlow wore a strapless leopard dress with a snarling diagonal poking out from her chest.

The pieces are built entirely by hand using foamed resin and other man-made materials. Despite Schiaparelli’s determination that it was a “false taxidermy,” the bounty hunt’s visual similarities cause some social media users to find it hard to appreciate the collection.

But for Roseberry, if a costume is intimidating, it does its job. He concludes in the show notes, “Hell, Purgatory, Paradiso: one cannot exist without the other.” “It is a reminder that there is no heaven without hell, no joy without sorrow, and no ecstasy with creation without the torment of doubt.”