Daniel Roseberry：两个月突击完成首马

Marathon Sunday was a blur, but Schiaparelli creative director Daniel Roseberry does remember a few things vividly: the dappled light across the 26.2-mile route; the rhythmic sounds of sneakers against pavement as he strode onto a bridge and the crowds faded away; the absolutely perfect weather; and the overwhelming feeling of love he felt as he saw his friends and family on the sidelines, cheering him on.

“There are no words to describe it,” Roseberry tells Vogue of running the New York City Marathon, his first. “This day will stay with me … for a long time.”

The funny thing is, this time last year Roseberry had no intention of taking on the arduous course. But last Christmas, the designer went out on an impulsive—and what would prove to be fateful—run through Paris along the Seine, the city’s famous central waterway. While he was no stranger to the magic and romance of the city where he has lived and worked since 2019, the run opened his eyes to his surroundings in new and profound ways. Something awoke in him, and, ten months later, he found himself among the nearly 60,000 participants of the New York City Marathon, which he completed in 4 hours and 24 minutes.

“It was just the perfect day,” Roseberry says a few hours after finishing, his medal still draped around his shoulders. He’d just enjoyed some post-race pizza and pasta (a “second dinner” of Shake Shack was also on its way), and he was looking ahead to some much-deserved time in Therabody recovery boots. “It really reconnected me to my love of this city.”

Roseberry started the day early, at 3:30 a.m., before taking a 5:00 a.m. bus to Staten Island, where the race begins before winding its way through the remaining four boroughs and ending in Central Park. “It was pin-drop silent on the bus,” he recalls. “But you can sense everyone’s energy. It’s like this pent-up anticipation.” He was part of the last wave, which set off at 11:30 a.m., meaning that after he arrived he had to wait five hours before starting his journey.

After scaling the route’s opening gambit—the four-mile-long Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, with a two-mile, 174-foot elevation gain, the race’s highest climb—the infamous crowds that line the route started to materialize. “The city really shows up, and it’s beautiful. All these people cheering for you… and they don’t know you. They’re cheering your name, telling you you can do it. It really carries you and is a beautiful representation of humanity at its best. It transcended every expectation I had.”

Roseberry completed this feat with just two months of training, starting in September, as he was preparing his spring 2027 ready-to-wear collection. He worked with Jonathan Fins, his trainer of two years, to structure a program that built on his existing fitness foundation, rooted in strength training, mobility, and calisthenics. (Roseberry can not only design a shockingly glamorous dress but also do a deeply impressive 24 pull-ups.) It was truncated and intense: In September, the pair added a weekly run that increased in mileage, peaking at 33 kilometers (around 20 miles) before tapering, so as not to exhaust the body in the lead-up to the main event. (It’s common practice for first-time marathoners not to run the full 26.2 until the actual race.)

The training process allowed him a break from his usual responsibilities, in which he’s the one calling the shots. “Most days, everyone’s looking to me for answers,” he says. “With this, I was able to put myself into the care of another person.”

Roseberry had no specific finish time in mind. “I just want to finish, and be able to walk,” he half-joked during a FaceTime call the day before the race. He did later note, however, that he’d acheived one objective: he went through the entire course without walking.

The designer chose New York as the location for his first race because he was already scheduled to be in town to accept the Leader in the Arts Award at the Hirshhorn Gala award on Monday. With Halloween rolling into Marathon Day, however, he also realized that it was one of the best weekends to be in the city. “It just had to be New York,” he says.

During training, Roseberry would spend the first half of his run talking (and sometimes bickering) with Fins, only to reward himself with a pop-heavy playlist for the second half (Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, and Rosalía were in heavy rotation). And while he cued up an epic song cycle for the actual marathon, he ended up only listening to it for 15 minutes. “It didn’t feel like it was in the spirit of the day,” he says. “I wanted to be in the moment, honor it, and take it all in. I wanted to be present with the other runners, and with the people who came to watch.”

As one would imagine, Roseberry was very particular about his training attire: Asics Gel-Kayano running shoes, Nike socks, open-weave cotton tank tops from Sunspel, and cheap, sporty wraparound sunglasses that he bought in multiple colors from Dick’s Sporting Goods in Maine over the summer.

And training for and then completing the marathon gave him great insight into his own work as a designer. “It had me thinking about the body in different ways,” he says. “How could it not? And I like that the marathon is this thing with a defined beginning and end; it’s a closed loop. There are so many things always going on in fashion, but I’d like to take that mentality into my work.”

On the morning of the race, Roseberry sent a voice note, reflecting on what the two-month, intensive program had meant to him. “The thing I keep coming back to is this physical transformation is so important to me. It feels so vital because it’s a physical manifestation of an inner transformation that’s been happening over the past year,” he said. “I think for four decades I had been completely, in many ways, living for the approval of other people and living in total abandonment of myself, and my body, for sure. I think this marathon has significance because it’s the first real thing to be envisioned, worked and trained for, and completed in a really radical, new way of thinking. The transformation isn’t transforming into somebody different or somebody new or something better. It’s about remembering what my body was always capable of in the first place. I feel like I met this body, like it’s a person, that I re-met a year ago. And the last eight weeks of training have been a way of honoring that relationship going back into my life.”

At one point during our call after the race, Roseberry mentions something about next year, which begged the question: will he be back? “Oh, yeah,” he says. “Early on in the race, like mile four or five, I called my friend and told her, ‘We’re so doing this next year.’”