Ece Ege was ready to take flight this season, with balloon hems on skirts and sleeves adding volume to her signature silhouettes.

It was a well-placed touch of nostalgia that recalled her graduation project from ESMOD fashion school in Paris more than two decades ago. Sure, the skirts were shorter then, but the silhouette felt ripe for a more mature take on safari and tuxedo shirtdresses with the hem hitting the knee.

Her focus on deceptively simple shapes for a voluminous silhouette that doesn’t add volume is rooted in anatomical precision.

“You shouldn’t look like a potato,” she said, explaining her obsession with tailoring for women’s bodies, which, it might behoove some designers to remember, come in a variety of shapes and sizes. “There’s so much mathematics and engineering to the

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