Images from L-R

Hourglass mini dress in frayed floral and crystal embroidery, with jet crystal embroidered symbols. Hand-crochet dress in black cotton yarn with trailing skirt and crystal symbol embellishment. Parka coat in ivory cotton twill with floral embroidery, worn with metallised cotton nightshirt with crochet and lace appliqué, Mid-length hourglass dress in sun-faded ochre denim with spliced historical threadwork embroidery and crystal appliqué &  Skeletal bustier cage dress in collaged antique lace remnants with jet crystal embroidered symbols

For Spring Summer 2026, Erdem looks to the extraordinary figure of Hélène Smith, the late 19th-century Swiss medium whose trances carried her across centuries, continents, and planets. Smith believed herself to have lived other lives: as a member of the French court, as an Indian princess, and as a traveller among Martian skies. These three incarnations – which the psychologist Théodore Flournoy called her Romantic Cycles – became both her myth and her undoing. Smith’s visions were dreamlike and often discredited, yet they reveal a woman continually inventing and reinventing herself through her art. Her story speaks of multiplicity: monarch, mystic, Martian – identities overlapping, fractured, and reassembled at the edge of imagination. The collection is a meditation on this shifting sense of self, embracing the contradictions of history and fantasy, reality and dream. It reflects the many facets of femininity – expressive, fluid, and never confined to a single narrative.

Images from L-R

Parka in pink-printed metallised linen gauze, worn with draped column dress in printed crêpon. Draped mid-length dress in vivid lime floral-printed metallised linen gauze. Parka in hessian with spliced historical threadwork embroidery, worn with skeletal pannier dress in mint organza cloqué with spliced historical threadwork embroidery. Hourglass mini dress in hessian with spliced historical threadwork embroidery. Fluid blazer, worn with matching shirt and drawstring trousers in ochre striped cotton.

CREDITS

Casting—Ben Grimes
Makeup—Fara Homidi for Fara Homidi Beauty
Hair—Anna Cofone for Authentic Beauty Concept
Skincare—myBlend
Nails—Glossify
Undergarments—Commando
Production—OBO
Video—InDigital

Photography courtesy of Erdem