It was 23 years ago, as Erdem Moralioğlu sat cross-legged on the late Vivienne Westwood’s studio floor during an internship, that he decided to try his luck at becoming a fashion designer.
“She was just such an extraordinary, amazing woman. She and [her husband and creative partner] Andreas would let the work placement students watch fittings and watch as they draped fabric on the stand. It was a very important time for me,” he said. Five years later he staged his first show, and he has been a fixture of London fashion ever since.
