Based in Florence, after several experiences in theatre costumesperformances and istallations and beside her role as Head of Sampling and Research for Vivienne Westwood’s Gold Label, Daniela Corcio is the art director of her own label Ikonostas.

 

Subject to her work are  corsets and  tieslaces and  rather  unusual  fabrics,  formal jackets and tailleurs, even orthopedic garments, borsalinos and guepieres. Trousers become corsets, corsets’ laces and mesh become details and gussets,  jackets  are  cut  and destroyed,  all details  recall the past a nd  refer to the  future.  We are in  the  III Millennium, people live new ways of communication and they are freed from stereotypes. Clothes always explore non-verbal  communication being  the  perception  of  the outward,  the influence  we receive   from  different personalities  of  the  human  kind.

 

In 2008 the Fashion District of Tuscany selects her as a talent of Florence for representation during the fashion show  PRIMA RES (the most new talented designers in Europe) in Palazzo Strozzi,  which has been  her first experience  about  lingerie.

 

In 2010 Daniela Corcio is among 8 of the best new designers of lingerie in the world by the Italian network dessous LINEA INTIMA, together with other names as Lasciviuos, Kriss Soonik, Made by Niki..

 

She approaches lingerie in an unusual way. Sartorial identity and demand for quality unites provocation, irony and eroticism and makes underwear become haute-couture.

 

The garment is manufactured as a single piece or in a very limited edition. Ikonostas’ lingerie is made in a sartorial manner leaning on artisans and using exclusively high quality fabric.