The Erdem Pre-Fall 2026 draws on Wagner’s spirit of self-expression while revisiting signatures from the house’s past twenty years. Tattoo-like motifs appear across prints, tiny emblems of memory and mark-making. Belle Époque references surface throughout a flicker of lacework, the curved line.

The movement and immediacy of Jacques Henri Lartigue inform the collection’s energy: pleated ruffles inspired by his wind-caught photographs, skirts and details that feel lifted mid-motion. Shapes shift from the structured to the elongated, echoing the era’s own evolution.

The Belle Époque becomes a conversation between past and present, a celebration of how style, like skin, can hold stories across time.