London-based Canadian designer Erdem Moralioglu has won a fourth straight British Fashion Award.
To many, it’s not surprising; the Montreal-born designer has been on a fierce winning streak as of late, both abroad and in Canada.
His ready-to-wear brand Erdem has become known for its richly coloured, floral-filled, feminine, custom-designed prints in its modern cocktail frocks and gowns. It’s become a go-to for everyone from Kate Middleton and Emma Stone, to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. They’re the kind of pieces that get noticed across the ballroom and photograph well without effort.
Moralioglu was honoured with the establishment designer award yesterday at the annual event organized by the British Fashion Council, a prize that recognizes a ready-to-wear designer with a strong retail and e-commerce footprint who is also “a bastion of British fashion.” He was also in the running for the red carpet award, but lost to Tom Ford (we suppose Moralioglu can’t feel too badly about that).
It’s definitely not Moralioglu’s first time at the awards; last year, he was awarded womenswear designer of the year, and took home the red carpet award in 2013. In 2012, he won the new establishment award.
Back home, Moralioglu was named international Canadian designer of the year at the Canadian Arts & Fashion Awards (CAFA) in Toronto.
The now thirty-seven-year-old Moralioglu studied at London’s Royal College of Art before moving to New York to work in the design studios of Diane von Furstenberg (no big deal, right?).
He relocated to the U.K. to launch his label in 2005. It’s safe to say he’s done all right ever since…
