Ferragamo Spring 2026 Collection
In rainy Milan, Maximilian Davis took a risk and staged Ferragamo’s Spring 2026 show outdoors at the Portrait Milano courtyard. Though the brown carpet was still soaked, the skies held long enough for the designer to deliver a sensual, sophisticated, and lounge-like take on the 1920s — the very decade when the Florentine house was born.
In his latest archival dive, Davis was struck by a photograph of actress Lola Todd, clad head to toe in leopard with a real cub by her side. This image sparked his reflection on how exotic textiles and leathers imported from Africa and the Caribbean once symbolized wealth and status, a theme resonating with his own Trinidadian-Jamaican heritage.
He also looked to the satirical works of John Held Jr., who captured Jazz Age life in magazines, sketching women in flapper dresses and men in sharp Zoot suits. What Davis drew from it was the spirit of rebellion: a generation building its own spaces, secret bars, and new codes of self-expression — especially women dressing for themselves.
The collection translated that energy into fluid tailoring with shawl collars, drop-waist straight dresses, and pajama sets. Animal prints morphed into abstract mottling on devoré satin, while flapper-inspired looks carried boudoir undertones with scalloped satin and airy lace.
