Salvatore Ferragamo was born OnThisDay, 125 years ago ❤️
’s triumphant return to the couture calendar in Paris, models walked the runway with leopard-print legs. It was neither a surreal hosiery trick nor make-up that was responsible, but rather cleverly crafted thigh-high boots, first created more than 90 years ago by innovative shoe designer.
Back in 1915, at the tender age of 17, Ferragamo had left the small Italian village of Bonito where he was born, and boarded an ocean-liner from Naples to the United States. In a time when America’s doors remained open to immigrants, the determined Ferragamo saw the new world as a true land of opportunity.
was transforming in the post-war period, with shorter boyish haircuts and loosely cut drop-waists coming to define women’s dress, as the exhibition reveals. Combined with the rising vogue for energetic dances, styles like the foxtrot and charleston presented a liberating freedom, with vigorous swinging of limbs which in turn required shoes that could take the pressure and keep people dancing all night long. In many ways Ferragamo was designing shoes for the 1920s all along.
Despite its broad themes, every piece in the exhibition is fundamental in Ricci’s eyes, with Ferragamo’s designs seated comfortably between works by the likes of Gio Ponti and Mini Maccari. “The final result is given by the synergy,” she explains. It’s certainly an immersive experience; it takes the metaphor of Ferragamo’s ocean voyage and transforms the exhibition space into a journey all of its own.
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