Runway S/S18
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CROWNING GLORY<br />
ERDEM<br />
IT’S THE SLOT on the LFW schedule that serious<br />
fashionistas pay attention to. For S/<strong>S18</strong>, the designer<br />
came over all royalist with an ode to the Queen – to<br />
be precise, a 32-year-old royal highness re-imagined<br />
in the style of Harlem’s Cotton Club in the ’50s.<br />
“I wanted to play with the idea of what would<br />
have happened if the Queen went to New York and<br />
Dorothy Dandridge had ended up in Buckingham<br />
Palace,” mused designer Erdem Moralioglu, having<br />
spent his summer at Windsor Castle working<br />
through the Queen’s wardrobe. The collection was<br />
a mix of ’50s-style opera coats, satin dresses, tweed<br />
trouser suits and sexy pencil skirts, all with a quirky,<br />
‘naughty’ twist. Offbeat was the name of the game<br />
backstage too, where Anthony Turner’s ‘kooky hair’,<br />
using L’Oréal Professionnel, was styled to look as<br />
though the queen had been up dancing all night.<br />
Fit for royalty, we say.<br />
Image courtesy of L’Oréal Professionnel<br />
08 RUNWAY Spring/Summer 2018
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