04.17.2013

Gate Magazine, Prague _ Spring/Summer Issue

04.17.2013

Тихое одиночество

– cotton wool cape with hood and skirt, silk satin corset, tulle bracelet, all Ikonostas

– karung shoes Céline

– leather gloves Madova

– socks Calzedonia

– vintage lizard bag

– leather jacket Jean Paul Gaultier

– mesh and net waspie Ikonostas

– lace skirt Matteo Pecchioli

– mesh and net underskirt Ikonostas

– leather gloves Madova

– karung shoes Céline

– vintage tulle with strass

– vintage silk net fascinator

– art decò silver with diamond earrings

– leather jacket Jean Paul Gaultier

– mesh and net waspie Ikonostas

– mesh and net bra Ikonostas

– mesh and net underskirt Ikonostas

– leather gloves Madova

– karung shoes Céline

– Gucci vintage glasses

– vintage pearl necklace and earrings

– vintage plexiglass bag

– mesh skirt Ikonostas

– pendant necklace Ikonostas

– pendant earrings unknown

– Solstiss lace on head

– vintage cameo brooch

– Murano glass ring

– leather gloves Madova

– vintage plexiglass bag

– silk satin corset Ikonostas

– mesh skirt Ikonostas

– antique cross pendant with diamonds

– leather gloves unknown

– velvet shoes unknown

– vintage umbrella

– leather belt Vivienne Westwood

03.29.2012

Not only corsets, lingerie and clothes..

The birth of Air Bags Collection was funny, I just was all dressed in rubber and any of my bags matched properly my outfit. I had a damaged wheel on my car. I took off the inner tube from the tyre, I cleaned and I draped a bag.

Then I did a research.. inner tubes create pollution if abandoned, so I start my ethical project.

Sold in past years in Chicago, Milan, London, Rome and to private celebrity people today Air Bags is come back. You can see some pieces at Opera Opera, in Hong Kong.

LOWER, G/F, 14 Gough Street, Central, Hong Kong, Central District, Hong Kong

Here below the official release of the project and some pictures.

Air-Bags

Air-bags is an ethical project developed by Ikonostas in 2005.

The wish of the designer is to create fashion items recycling materials that are disused and that generate pollution.

Also rubber is a good substitute for people who don’t use wear leather.

The inner tubes lived on the street, becoming part of each car.. and car is the vehicle transporting people, becoming part of our life.

Is rilevant to this matter the choice of the making. Each piece of Ikonostas Air Bags collection is shaped around it’s own use, the shape of the inner tube results from the pression of the inner gas. The material is not sewn by machine but handcrafted with studs.

Air Bags is a collection of one of a kind items.

Limited Edition.

March 2013

for Cosmopolitan Armenia

ph. Sara Mautone

stylists: Irene Ghillani / Prisca Maizzi

shot in Relais Santa Croce, Firenze

When I was 13 I seen for the first time a Vivienne Westwood’s Fashion Show on TV.. and I thought ‘I love this woman, I will do something for her one day’.

I don’t know why my mind thought that..it was so pretentious.
When I was 19 I entered to a fashion school, I remember my first man drawing .. my teacher of art understood from that sketch that my favourite designer was Vivienne Westwood. The man I drown was naked.
When I was 22 I start to write my degree thesis, the name was ‘Il Teatro della Seduzione’ (The Theatre of Seduction).. it concerns the style of certain fashion shows that look like a theatrical performance, the focus was on Vivienne Westwood fashion shows.
Meanwhile I was writing the thesis I gone to her studio in London and I start to work with her.
After all these years I still think she is the best fashion designer in the world, well.. you can think what you like, she is my favourite one and I feel so lucky to spent 12 years working for her !!! I love my MUSE! ♥

12.31.12

Last publication of the year.. on Star’s System  http://starssystem.it/i-am-mine/

“I am Mine”

Ph: Nicola Casini;
Models: Anna Kote @ Casting, Alina Shably @ Esprit, Kristina Guzar

MUA&Hair: Silvia Gerzeli
Stylist: Camilla Bresci
Set Assistant: Ismaele Bulla
Prod. Assistant: Riccardo Pantani
Special Thanks: Deborah Parcesepe

Ikonostas pieces on the first and second picture: crepe cotton and silk gauze Collar, black silk brief – on the third: crepe cotton collar – on the fourth and fifth: black dress with button – on the sixth: white silk tulle bra, white and black wool collar – on the seventh: crepe cotton shirt – on the last one: crepe cotton and black tulle collar

12.23.12

L’anno volge al termine, prima di guardare ai buoni propositi e agli obbiettivi per il 2013.. voglio soffermarmi su tutte le persone che hanno collaborato con me nel 2012 rendendo ogni progetto Ikonostas speciale, in ordine alfabetico per nome:
Angelo Barbato _ A.N.G.E.L.O.
Danielle Canfield ed Eliza Blaettner_ mie assistenti
Deborah Parcesepe _ modella
Enrie Scielzo _ modello
Francesco Balducci _ web designer Ikonostas.net
Ivan Pavlov _ progetto Soisong/Ottottagoni
Lorenzo Cercelletta _ web designer Ottottagoni.com (sito)
Maria Vittoria Ulivi _ coordinatore Der Rerum Natura
Max Pruneti _ fotografia
Riccardo Pittaluga _ video maker
Sabrina Nucci _  coordinatore Der Rerum Natura
Silvia Gerzeli _ make up artist
Silvia Sarrini _ web designer Ottottagoni.com (blog)
Stefan Pollack _ direttore creativo Drome Magazine
Valentina Eleonora Costa _ fotografia

Collaborazioni
un ringraziamento anche a tutti coloro che hanno coinvolto Ikonostas nei loro progetti, direttamente o indirettamente:

fotografi: Berg & Mann, Emma Innocenti, Erica Fava, Lara Ferri, Manuela Masciadri, Nicola Casini,  Nico Malvaldi,  Kristina Vassileva, Xenia McBell

stylist: Alexandra Greenhill, Barbara Palladino, Camilla Bresci, Carmel Imelda Walsh, Indigo Millar, Margarida Viegas

video maker: Matteo Graia

alle riviste dove sono apparsi i miei pezzi: Assent Magazine, Design Catwalk, Drome, Elite Life, Fault Magazine,  Linea Intima, Love for Italy, Intimo Più Mare, Fashion Magazine,  So Vain Magazine, The Other Side, Trendsetter.

e per chi ha dato egregia vita ai miei capi  indossandoli:

Alina Shably, Agne Motiejunaite, April Summers,  Charlotte Moore, Corinne Piccolo, Debora Omassi, Deborah Parcesepe,  Eliza Blaettner, Enrie Scielzo, Francesca Cortevesio, Lex Olsén, Liza,  Michela d’Angelo

Un ringraziamento particolare va come sempre a Vivienne Westwood e Andreas Kronthaler perché lavorando con loro oggi sono Ikonostas.

Grazie a tutti .. e Auguri per il nuovo anno, che sia ricco di creatività e che l’energia che mettiamo nel nostro lavoro sia costante alleata nel far  vivere i nostri sogni.