Erdem Fall/Winter 2026 / FW26 at London Fashion Week Erdem Fall/Winter 2026 collection marks the twentieth anniversary of the independent house. The collection is called The Imaginary Conversation, and it pays homage to the voices and stories of Erdem’s protagonists over two decades of dialogue expression in fashion. Erdem FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 collection brings…
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ERDEM Pre-Fall 2026 at London Fashion
ERDEM Pre-Fall 2026 / PF26 at London Fashion Erdem PF26 / Pre-Fall 2026 collection opens with a narrative rooted in history, expression, and the quiet power of personal identity. Drawing inspiration from Maud Wagner—America’s first female tattoo artist—Erdem revisits the spirit of the Belle Époque, a time of artistic freedom and shifting social landscapes. Wagner’s…
Erdem Spring/Summer 2026 at London Fashion Week
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,…
ERDEM Pre-Spring 2026 at London Fashion
ERDEM Pre-Spring 2026 / Resort 2026 / PS26 at London Fashion The inspection of Pre-Spring 2026, Erdem has delved into the pioneering work of Maria Sibylla Merian, the 17th Century German entomologist and botanical illustrator. At a time in history when independent-minded women were still being accused of witchcraft, Merian defied societal expectations, divorcing her…
Erdem Autumn/Winter 2025 at London Fashion Week
Erdem Autumn/Winter 2025 / AW25 at London Fashion Week ‘And as she dipped into the blue paint, she dipped too into the past there.’ To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf For Autumn Winter 2025, Erdem has collaborated with the artist Kaye Donachie. The pair were contemporaries at the RCA, but the idea for collaboration was born…
Erdem Spring/Summer 2025 at London Fashion Week
Erdem Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 at London Fashion Week. ‘The Well of Loneliness’ by Radclyffe Hall was first published in 1928, and banned from circulation before the end of the same year. It tells the story of Stephen Gordon, a woman living as a man, and her relationship with Mary Llewellyn. Hall herself lived openly…
ERDEM Pre-Spring 2025 collection just launched
ERDEM Pre-Spring 2025 collection just launched For ERDEM Pre-Spring / Resort 2025, Erdem has taken inspiration from the author Radclyffe Hall, during the publication in the 1920s of her controversial (today celebrated) book: The Well of Loneliness. Hall lived openly as a gay woman with her partner Una Troubridge. She frequently wore men’s clothes, latterly…
Erdem FW24 at London Fashion Week
Erdem FW24 / Fall Winter 2024 at London Fashion Week For Erdem Fall Winter 2024, we are taking our seats in 1953 for a career-defining performance of Medea by Maria Callas. The production was like alchemy. Callas did not play the role; she inhabited a persona with such force to the point that the boundary…
Erdem Pre-Fall 2024 at London Fashion
Erdem Pre-Fall 2024 at London Fashion, Erdem is backstage with the opera singer Maria Callas. The legend of Callas’s stage performances belied a personal life of insecurity and tragedy. In character she had an electric capacity to project complex emotional states with her voice. Off stage she wore her vulnerability in public. When the lights…
ERDEM SS24 at London Fashion Week
ERDEM SS24 / Spring Summer 2024 at London Fashion Week The journey between inheritance and legacy is often defined by human determination more than fate. For ERDEM Spring Summer 2024, Erdem examines a story of heritage, edifice and identity, through the lens of Deborah, the late dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and her relationship with Chatsworth…
Erdem Fall Winter 2023 – 2024 Collection at London Fashion Week
Erdem Fall Winter 2023 – 2024 Collection at London Fashion Week Inspiration of Erdem Fall Winter 2023 – 2024 Collection : Whilst peeling back the layers of his Bloomsbury townhouse, Erdem discovered echoes of the building’s former residents. Sickly arsenic green wallpaper lined one room, long buried by subsequent owners. He found the drawing of…
Erdem Spring Summer 2023 at London Fashion Week
Erdem Spring Summer 2023 “Grief is the price we pay for love”, This show is dedicated to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. For Spring Summer 2023, Erdem has explored the restoration of art. The knowledge, skill and dedication required in restoration is both a visceral and a technical form of creativity. It requires forensic passion;…
Erdem Menswear Fall Winter 2022 – 2023 at London Fashion
For Fall menswear, Erdem has looked at the work of two 20th century female photographers: Madame d’Ora and Madame Yevonde. Madame d’Ora was Dora Kallmus, a Viennese, self-taught portrait photographer, who counted Picasso and Josephine Baker as subjects and friends. Madame Yevonde was Yevonde Middleton, a London-based portraitist and still-life photographer who pioneered the use…
Erdem Spring Summer 2022 at London Fashion Week
This collection is a love letter to London’s idiosyncratic soul, told in a dance between two extraordinary and timeless women: Edith Sitwell and Ottoline Morrell. Together, they encapsulate the city’s fervent spirit which, for me, is an endless inspiration. Sitwell and Morrell were enigmatic characters who lived on the peripheries between myth and reality. Both…