"Lead Image Photography by Harry Miller About halfway through his Spring/Summer 2026 Ferragamo show, Maximilian Davis played the low, throbbing, instantly recognisable (at least, to a homosexual such as myself) baseline of Kylie Minogue's Slow. Which is fitting. What Davis is doing at Ferragamo is a slow burn, a gradual build up of new ideas of wardrobing and reworked bits of hardware, silhouettes and approaches that, like that Minogue beat, could come to be inextricably aligned with the label in future."
"A lot of that newness, actually, is quite old - Davis is a wicked tailor, and this collection in particular jumped back a century, looking to a 1925 image of an obscure silent movie star, Lola Todd - weirdly, an actor with a fashion background who used to design her own costumes for many of her roles. There was a picture of her in Ferragamo's archive dressed in leopard print that sparked Davis' thinking."
"1925 has been on lots of designers' moodboards this season, it seems - that was the year of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris - which gave title, if not necessarily birth, to the Art Deco movement. It was also the year of the debut of Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre, the birth of an international superstar and a shift in perceptions of performers of colour more widely."
Maximilian Davis staged a Spring/Summer 2026 Ferragamo show that unfolded as a slow burn, combining meticulous tailoring with subtle, signature motifs. The collection reached into Ferragamo's archive, drawing on a 1925 photograph of Lola Todd in leopard print and broader 1920s visual culture tied to Art Deco and the debut of performers such as Josephine Baker. Davis contemplated the politics of anomalies and traced how materials, prints and textiles imported from Africa and the Caribbean became markers of status in Europe and America. Davis balanced historical reference with present-day identity while reshaping silhouettes and hardware.
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