Paul Andrew proudly showed his second collection for Salvatore Ferragamo at a space in TriBeCa. The installation focused mostly on shoes, which are historically at the core of the late Salvatore Ferragamo himself as well as the brand. “I wanted to reestablish the fact that we own certain codes of this house, which maybe people did not realize these codes were born here,” Andrew said. For starters, he explained that he looked at more than 15,000 pairs of shoes in the archives. “Going through one by one, there was an overarching theme that I noticed — so many of the shoes have flowers as a theme. So I thought it would be fun to make this season about florals,” he said.
And flowers he delivered. Andrew went on a photographic expedition to the London flower markets and came back with images of what would become the motifs and prints for resort. The floral prints were seen most prominently on single-toe pumps or as the ankle wraps on patent leather sandals.
“There’s a spontaneity and energy to these graphic flowers printed on silk but when you wrap and tie them the print becomes almost abstract and a softness emerges,” he said in his
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