This is only his second collection for the luxury house founded in 1927 in Florence the young designer Maximilian Davis is no longer a beginner. In the MiCo congress centre, the Ferragamo autumn-winter 2023-2024 fashion show presented on 24 February 2023 took the breath away from the audience of this Milan Fashion Week for the precision of its cuts, inspired by the 1950s (a period in which the maison wore shoes Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren and other Marilyn Monroe), and sewn with more contemporary elements.
Why Maximilian Davis’ Ferragamo Fall/Winter 2023-2024 show is breathtaking
Thus, under the impetus of 27-year-old British fashion designerTrinidadian in origin, balloon-shaped opening coats and jackets were accompanied by mesh leggings on the décolletage. Contrasting white hoods on overcoats with rigorously high collars, slightly off-centre buttoning to reinforce the idea of tightness. The sharp tailoring was also available in different types of leather (an obligation of the Italian house), injecting an almost BDSM dimension into the exercise.
Some second skin dresses, in pleated PVC, could inspire a feeling of suffocation, spun throughout this Ferragamo Fall-Winter 2023-2024 collection by Maximilian Davis. Aside from a few glances at the Bardot cleavage to catch her breath, it was therefore a work dressed to the nines, through and through.
After the first 25 looks in neutral tones (navy blue, black, cream and a blue tending towards lilac), red bursts into the collection, sometimes as a total look, sometimes such cuts in the center of the dresses that could be read as the characteristic cuts of the work of Lucio Fontana (Argentine painter and sculptor, best known for his indented monochrome paintings). These color fissures might look like crazy snaps are welcome amidst all this disciplined tailoring worksigned Maximilian Davis for his second collection as artistic director of Ferragamo.
Source: Madmoizelle
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