PARIS — It’s cooled off in France in all sorts of ways. The heat wave that smothered the country finally broke on Monday. The “Yellow Vest” protests that raised the political temperature have mostly fizzled. Les Bleues are out of the World Cup.

And in Paris, at the Couture, Daniel Roseberry, a 33-year-old unknown American from Texas newly installed at the helm of Schiaparelli, made his debut in the opening show of the season with nary a shriek of protest, a hair out of place, or a lobster in sight.

Even though it was his first show as an artistic director, even though he had never worked with a couture atelier before, even though he had only two months to put it together, even though he does not speak French, and even though he was the first American at the head of a French couture house in the modern era (another American, Ralph Rucci, was also on the schedule, but with his own brand, RR331).

Oh — and also even though the legacy of Elsa Schiaparelli, a designer best remembered for her mind-meld with Surrealists like Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau and her affinity for shocking pink, has had a tendency to overwhelm previous designers, who have oft gotten lost in the imagery and forgotten to focus on the intent. Marco Zanini, the first creative director of the revived house under its new owner, Diego Della Valle, lasted just over a year, and his successor, Bertrand Guyon, about four.