Maximilian Davis is on something of a Twenties trip with his work at Ferragamo – that period has inspired his last three collections for the brand, fittingly founded in 1927. As we enter the second half of the Twenties in our own century – marked here by the Spring/Summer 2026 season – that backwards glance makes sense; as does the fact that, unlike anything earlier, the clothes of that time feel vintage rather than antique, and have a resonance with our ideas of attraction and body ideals. Shoes are kind of free from all that jazz (no pun) – if they fit, you can wear them. These Ferragamo mules nod to the era, sporting an art deco-inspired abstraction of a flower on a blunted square satin toe. That device could equally be a burst of flame, or some imagined celestial comet, or just a gesture in embroidery, like a piece of jewellery bedazzling the foot as opposed to an earlobe. What you can’t see here is their quizzical, quasi-question mark of a curved heel – as if asking, “why not?”
The Ferragamo S-shaped heel mule is available to buy online.
