Ferragamo Pre-Spring 2027: Maximilian Davis Gets Casual
Maximilian Davis has spent his time at Ferragamo in the 1920s. This season he finally looked up from the red carpet and into the everyday.
Since taking the helm at Ferragamo, Maximilian Davis has returned again and again to the same era of the 1920s, the Hollywood starlets and the glamour of Salvatore’s earliest clients. For Pre-Spring 2027, he’s still there, but just much earlier in the day. “I’ve always referenced the more glamorous parts,” he says. “This time I wanted to look at daywear, too.”
The collection feels looser than usual as Surrealism and Cubism run through it texturally, surfacing in the gold lamé applied to a dropped-waist chiffon dress, washed georgette inset with transparent crêpe and embroidered stitch lines, and draped silks fluid but cut through with graphic lines. The patchwork sensibility Davis was drawn to in the art of the period shows up in these fabrications, making for a collection that feels experimental but never arbitrary.
1920s sportswear details run through the tailoring too, as the pieces are embellished with contrast borders on jackets and leather trim on the nylon windbreakers. The menswear silhouettes cut feel like an argument backing the opinion that comfort and style have never actually been in conflict, and that menswear figured this out a long time ago. The borrowed silhouettes are an obvious solution Davis has simply decided to act on.
There’s no lack in the accessories department, bringing the patchwork idea to the iconic Hug bag, now rendered in leather and suede stripes, while the Soft bag appears in glossy olive and tobacco eelskin. A new bucket bag and an expanded Cara style round out the women’s offering, while men get a reversible leather tote lined in contrasting suede and a one piece shoulder bag in dark Barolo leather.
Footwear brings a new flatform sandal with a Gancini buckle, a fetishistic leather stiletto with the Gancini running across the upper, and classic loafers and Oxfords for men in both clean and detailed iterations.
Davis has spent his time at Ferragamo in the glamorous side of the 1920s. It turns out the casual version deserves just as much attention.
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Images courtesy of Ferragamo
Words: Roisin Teeling @roisinteeling
