Dilara Findikoglu is a designer worth waiting for.

Her show on Sunday evening ran more than an hour late, but the audience stayed put in their seats without rolling their eyes.

The show opened with the sound of a cage creaking open, followed by the click-clack of high heels. Findikoglu covered the floor of Ironmongers’ Hall with black cling film and dimmed all the lights.

The designer’s collection was about escaping the “Cage of Innocence,” which doubled as the collection’s title and referred to the hold that society has on women and associated with “virginity, brides or girls in white dresses in the countryside or in villages.”

Findikoglu remixed her Gothic looks in a sultry color palette of nude, pink and white.

Models covered in dirt walked clutching their stained white dresses, wh

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