Maximilian Davis Redefines Elegance for Ferragamo at Milan Fashion Week 2024
At Milan Fashion Week 2024, Ferragamo's autumn/winter 2024 collection, under creative director Maximilian Davis, challenges the conventional notion of elegance as exclusively Italian and rooted in the 1920s. Davis, a British designer born in Manchester to a Trinidadian family, reinterprets vintage aesthetics without nostalgia, focusing on outerwear as a starting point. Key pieces include long and double-breasted coats in muted colors, distinguished by a wide belt detail that appears on skirts, ethereal dresses, and eco-fur capes. The belt becomes a stylistic signature, used loosely or detached, symbolizing a break from past constraints. Davis also reworks collars and lapels, and introduces shorts for men, knitwear, and eveningwear that is light, liquid, feathered, scaly, artistic, vintage, illusory, and contrasting. The collection argues that elegance is not singular but adaptable to the present century, reflecting a creative process of reflection and freedom.
Key facts
- Ferragamo presented its autumn/winter 2024 collection at Milan Fashion Week 2024.
- Maximilian Davis is the creative director of Ferragamo.
- Davis is British, born in Manchester to a Trinidadian family.
- The collection challenges the idea that elegance is exclusively Italian and defined by the 1920s.
- Outerwear, particularly coats with wide belts, is central to the collection.
- The belt detail appears on skirts, dresses, and eco-fur capes, used loosely or detached.
- Davis reworks collars and lapels, and includes shorts for men, knitwear, and eveningwear.
- The collection aims to redefine elegance as adaptable and free from historical constraints.
Entities
Artists
- Maximilian Davis
Institutions
- Ferragamo
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Manchester
- Trinidad