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Designer debuts can sometimes feel more like regime changes, as it was when Alessandro Michele took over Gucci in 2015 or Phoebe Philo when she arrived at Celine in 2008.
Ahead of Maximilian Davis’ runway debut at Salvatore Ferragamo on Saturday, the Florentine house had already ditched the founder’s surname, zhushed up its logo and wiped its Instagram account clean, supplanting images of Viva ballerina flats…
