Passion Points: London fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu on his love of books

“I went to the Royal College of Art, which is literally just up the road,” the Turkish-Canadian designer says. “In my first year it was exciting to have access to places like this, to be able to do research here was so amazing to me.”

Moralioglu, 39, is one of London’s most respected designers, earning commercial success and critical accolades (most recently the 2014 British Fashion Council’s Womenswear Designer of the Year award) with a feminine aesthetic that straddles fantasy and reality.