Fall 2023 Trend: Red Sea

“I think that a woman dressed in red is always magnificent,” couturier Valentino Garavani once declared. 

For fall 2023, his signature shade saturated the runways, with the brand’s current creative director Pierpaolo Piccoli leading the charge. Red rosette and bow embellished pelmet skirts, an homage to Garavani’s “Fiesta” cocktail dress from spring 1959, and sweeping floor-length dresses gave feminine contrast to his lineup of black-tie suiting that WWD reviewer Miles Socha pegged as resembling the go-to look of another couturier, Karl Lagerfeld. 

At Maximillian Davis’ second collection for Ferragamo, which Socha declared as “a step up from his debut,” the designer further solidified his bid to make red synonymous with the house, showcasing outerwear and a plethora of new handbag styles, all done in the same electrifying shade.