Erdem Spring/Summer 2026 / SS26 at London Fashion Week

For Spring Summer 2026, Erdem looks to the extraordinary figure of Hélène Smith, the late 19th-century Swiss medium whose trances carried her across centuries, continents, and planets. Smith believed herself to have lived other lives: as a member of the French court, as an Indian princess, and as a traveller among Martian skies. These three incarnations – which the psychologist Théodore Flournoy called her Romantic Cycles – became both her myth and her undoing.

Smith’s visions were dreamlike and often discredited, yet they reveal a woman continually inventing and reinventing herself through her art. Her story speaks of multiplicity: monarch, mystic, Martian – identities overlapping, fractured, and reassembled at the edge of imagination.

The collection is a meditation on this shifting sense of self, embracing the contradictions of history and fantasy, reality and dream. It reflects the many facets of femininity – expressive, fluid, and never confined to a single narrative.

Erdem SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 at London Fashion Week

All images Erdem SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 by the brand. CREDITS : Casting Ben Grimes, Music Lukas Heerich, Makeup Fara Homidi for Fara Homidi Beauty, Hair Anna Cofone for Authentic Beauty Concept, Skincare myBlend, Nails Glossify, Stationery Smythson, Undergarments Commando, Production OBO, Video InDigital.