Erdem

“With an aesthetic as well-established as Erdem’s—not only in his work, but in the eternal cannon of rose-tinted, garland-strewen femininity of oh, the last millennium or so—the challenge is always to find fresh ground to explore, and to excite your audience. He achieved it.” —Alex Fury, SHOWstudio.com

“With Old World couture as a score and high tech materials as instruments, the Erdem show was as pitch perfect as the Philip Glass soundtrack.” —Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune

crossed over into the dark side, strong color, painterly, a little bit of fetish, fun, fearless female, juxtaposition of old elegance with new fabrics, attitude, pitch perfect, a little edge, more graphic, darker and more potent, a little kinky, tough, modernist gloss, modern (and po-mo) sentiment, perfectly tailored precision, dark, distinctly adult, provocative, proper made improper, more edge