March 2, 2025 |
Maximilian Davis is in his movement era. For AW25, the Ferragamo creative director turned to the expressive, limb-twisting world of German Tanztheater, where freedom and control, love and longing, all swirled into poetic motion. It was Ferragamo at its most unbound – draped in silk, cinched in leather, trailing with surrealist blooms.
Davis charted a course between the 1920s and the 1980s – two decades of rebellion, of performance as protest. A drop-waist slip, cut in slinky silk and inset with lace, nodded to the free spirits of the Weimar era, while trenches belted taut across the body like an ’80s power move. His love of tension played out in texture: cashmere so soft it melted into the skin, set against glossy, near-liquid leather; feathers flattened and poppies blooming along ribbon-like stems. And then there was the dreamlike oddity – a sheepskin-spliced dress, fur spilling from handbags, knitwear entirely reconfigured from jersey yarn.
Shoes and bags took a starring role. Almond-toe pumps burst with organza flowers, satin sandals wrapped the calf like a dancer’s ribbon. The Hug bag was doubled, belted, feathered – made tactile and unexpected. Ferragamo AW25 was movement made material – a wardrobe of rhythm, rupture and release.
Photography courtesy of Ferragamo.
