When the fabled Italian luxury brand Ferragamo named 20-something-year-old Maximilian Davis as its latest creative director, it seemed like an astonishing overnight success story. But, as the designer tells Zoey Goto, his giddy ascent has been a lifetime in the making, starting as a tenacious kid who refused to take no for an answer.

Zoey Goto received a rare invitation to speak with Dries Van Noten, to discuss the cerebral designer’s take on gender fluidity, the future of the catwalk show and how fashion might offer us a much-needed dose of unadulterated escapism.

How do you measure a suit whilst maintaining social distance? And following months of WFH loungewear, is there even an appetite for getting suited and booted again?  Zoey Goto paid a visit to see how the world’s most exclusive fashion street is adapting to the new post-Covid normal.

South China Morning Post STYLE visited the Italian fashion house to see the making of a US$100,000 K50 suit.