Popsugar Fashion Spring Fashion 2019 Erdem Spring 2019 Collection Erdem Takes Us Back Over 100 Years With a Collection That Still Feels Up to Date 17 September 2018 by Gemma Cartwright Image Source: IMAXTREE Given that the setting for the show was London's National Portrait Gallery, it should come as no surprise that the Erdem Spring 2019 show was as rich, luscious, and visually stunning as ever. Designer Erdem Moralioglu is a master with luxury fabrics, be they rich brocades or delicate ruffled tulle, and this collection had plenty of tactile-looking pieces. Paying homage to modest turn-of-the-century silhouettes (and we mean the 20th century, not the 21st), models walked the runway in elegant dresses with exaggerated puff sleeves, high necklines, giant bows, and floor-sweeping hemlines. One black and white dress topped with a dramatic veiled hat brought to mind the monochrome-clad attendees of Ascot in My Fair Lady, though Erdem's inspiration was far from the Audrey Hepburn musical . . . he was instead inspired by Fanny and Stella, two Victorian cross-dressers who were put to trial in 1871, charged with "conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence." Aside from the dresses, there was also tailoring, and it seems like Erdem is joining Victoria Beckham in bringing back extra-long skinny pants, with his designs stretching right over the model's shoes and to the floor, in herringbone or classic black. There was plenty here to please the designer's core fanbase, with all the usual feminine details and old-fashioned charm. The one thing missing? Any hint as to whether this LFW designer will turn royal wedding couturier in a month's time? Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 1 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 2 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 3 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 4 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 5 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 6 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 7 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 8 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 9 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 10 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 11 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 12 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 13 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 14 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 15 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 16 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 17 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 18 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 19 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 20 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 21 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 22 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 23 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 24 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 25 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 26 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 27 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 28 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 29 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 30 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 31 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 32 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 33 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 34 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 35 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 36 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 37 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 38 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 39 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 40 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 41 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 42 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 43 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 44 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 45 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 46 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 47 / 48 Image Source: IMAXTREE / Alessandro Lucioni 48 / 48 Spring Fashion 2019CollectionsLondon Fashion WeekRunwayFashion WeekDesignerErdemSpring