Erdem Pre-Fall 2013

Stereo_Flo · 19-12-2012

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According to Erdem Moralioglu, the sexiest part of a woman's body is her collarbone. His pre-fall collection put it on show: strapless dresses, obviously, but also pieces yoked in sheer organza and provocative PVC. After spicing up Spring with snakeskin, Erdem turned to plastic and leather to give his latest designs the requisite…no, let's not say wrongness yet again…let's opt for incorrectness this time 'round. That was his word. The need to create a sense of jarring disturbance is clearly an obsession with the designer, like it's something he requires to balance out his equally obsessive precision and perfectionism. Here, the results were so sophisticated but so peculiar that they left you craving a taste of whatever it was that spiked the punch at Erdem's cocktail party.

That PVC, for example, mounted with crepe cutouts in a psychedelic Prince of Wales check. Or the sheath in a tensile organza-backed, jeweled netting, vibrating over a black bra and slip. Or the tulle-yoked frock in a navy leather broderie anglaise. Or another dress raw-cut from pink silk, green crepe, and navy lace bonded to create one techno-organic cloth. Erdem's ever-growing technical acuity was clearest in these odd but unforgettable fabrics. He claimed that was the point: simple silhouettes whose impact was dramatically concentrated on texture and color. One short-sleeved floor-sweeper, shaded in a deep petrol splashed with sick pink, said it all. These were clothes you'd expect to find on the backs of Erdem's favorite psychological subjects, immaculately collar-boned Hitchcock blondes and their Italian cousin (Monica Vitti in Red Desert). When he veered away from that kind of clarity—with a boxy, angora-collared suit in a lamé tweed, for instance—his hand wasn't quite so sure. There is, after all, always the risk that obsession will breed excess. On the other hand, excess looked rather splendid in a dress of floral silk crepe overlaid with huge paillettes dyed to match, like giant fish scales.

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Not Plain Jane · 19-12-2012

Interesting experimentation with proportions - love those 2 mesh looks.

john2elmejor · 19-12-2012

Wow! Stunning collection!

LolaSvelt · 19-12-2012

Carey Mulligan should wear the whole collection, lol.

TREVOFASHIONISTO · 19-12-2012

I honestly follow his collections to see when and if he will ever run out of ways to use floral prints. He's too good

Alexei · 19-12-2012

Wowee.. what a treat!

Maximilian S · 19-12-2012

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Carey Mulligan should wear the whole collection, lol.

That really tells you something

I don't like this collection at all.

ScarlettLover · 19-12-2012

I will never tire of Erdem floral prints.

elle_gb · 19-12-2012

To me there is not much in design but the prints what!!! seriously that was gorgeous!!!

Kite · 20-12-2012

Some of the floral prints in the middle remind me of BALENCIAGA Spring 2008.....

**saann** · 20-12-2012

It got redundant the more I scrolled, could have easily cut down on the looks and it would have made a stronger collection.

vandekamp · 21-12-2012

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Originally Posted by saann

It got redundant the more I scrolled, could have easily cut down on the looks and it would have made a stronger collection.

I agree completely. I got bored by the end, to be honest. Overall I like the collection though.

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