Halfway through an awards season that looks more like a costume ball than red carpet glamour, the reduction with which the Milan designers are approaching the latter this season is a godsend. At Ferragamo, Maximilian Davis put that word— glamour—in proverbial neon lights, too, but condensed it to an outline, a silhouette, a memory. “Ferragamo started making shoes for films in the 1930s, and that grew into building relationships with movie stars like Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s,” he explained. “I was interested in using their glamour and beauty, and their way of dressing, as a reference, but looking at how we could make it feel modern for today.”