By Christian Allaire
Roth’s couture cape was designed custom by Valentino; it’s the last couture pieces that former creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli designed for the house before stepping down in March. The design was inspired by the lifecycle of a flower—from its initial blooming, to its withering and decaying breakdown. “I found [this theme] achingly poetic. I immediately wanted to make a piece about the life cycle—using the lifecycle of a flower as a metaphor,” says Roth. ““I imagined a piece that, from the top of my body, would start as green buds, then bloom into a flower of color, and then turn brown and go back into the earth.”