“Do you remember when going out was an event?” Ece Ege asked backstage after her show as she explained the origins of her evening-focused fall couture line. “It was a culture, a lifestyle — and I miss that.”
With a nod to the Seventies, the designer gave the lady tuxedo an update by deconstructing it and putting the pieces back together. She added billowy peplums made of heavy double-face satin to otherwise slim-cut ensembles; cut a bare back into a sleeveless, double-breasted top, and hacked off jackets to look like boleros only to give them a longer back.
The playful approach continued on the label’s trademark minidresses with their armorlike shoulders, which this time around featured gaudy, pop-art embroideries remotely resembling Roy Lichtenstein’s “Whaam” and “Varoom” illustrations in shape and color. It was clear they would get noticed dancing in the dark at a contemporary version of Studio 54.