From another century, into today's city.

Some projects start with a brief, others with a conversation. Working with Erdi was the second kind: a wardrobe built with singular taste carrying period tailoring into today's street — and a friendship that said "let's photograph this properly."

Concept: period soul, today's city

Erdi's style carries a ready-made story: the flat cap, the tie pin, high-waisted trousers. Instead of turning that spirit into costume drama, we placed it in today's city: arcades, old bars, brutalist concrete. The tension comes exactly from that contrast — the clothes from another century, the city from now.

Great personal style is a ready-made story; the photographer's job is to stage it without breaking it.

The chapters below belong to separate outfits and separate days — each shot like its own campaign.

A designer from Ankara, a friend

Erdi is a fashion designer from Ankara whom I hold dear — and this series is a friendship before it is a client job. The pieces he makes stand directly opposite mass production: unique, hand-shaped garments that carry a story. The frame's duty was to carry that story without crushing it.

A different idea of living

Shooting Erdi is not just shooting looks; it is shooting a worldview. His love of period aesthetics reads like a quiet objection to fashion photography's culture of speed: pieces made slowly, living long, finding their owner. The frames were built at the same tempo — unhurried light, waited-for moments.

The result

A series that advances look by look and grows with its archive; and beyond photography, a companionship that continues on two makers' respect for each other's craft.

Erdi's pieces now live under his own label: Tulpar — @tulpar.co. Everything you see in this series comes from there.