Anok Yai has just claimed one of fashion's most surreal thrones, and it is made entirely of shoes. Ferragamo's Autumn/Winter 2026 campaign, photographed by Johnny Dufort, places the model at the center of a dreamlike world where footwear stops being something people wear and starts becoming something people admire from a distance, the way one might admire a sculpture in a gallery.
That is because the throne itself is a sculpture. Anok Yai is perched atop 'Sole Sitter,' a towering shoe throne by celebrated American artist Willie Cole, originally created in 1994. The piece is one of Cole's most recognizable sculptures, assembled from dozens of discarded women's shoes that he transforms into monuments exploring identity, memory, and cultural history. Seeing it reimagined as a fashion campaign backdrop gives it a second life, one that speaks directly to Ferragamo's own obsession with shoes as objects worth admiring.
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