ABOUT CICAEDIA

CICAEDIA is a New York-based fashion house founded in 2021 by Yitzhak “Aaron” Rosenberg. Since its inception, the house has developed through a steady accumulation of work and relationships. Its language has sharpened through process and continues to evolve with each season.

The name CICAEDIA originated from a mispronunciation of “cicada” and was later refined through Cicadoidea, the insect’s scientific classification. What remained was an invented word with the weight of lineage, engineered enough to feel precise and unfamiliar enough to resist easy placement. That sensibility continues to guide the house.

CICAEDIA approaches clothing as something to be inhabited rather than consumed. Design begins with lived experience and material inquiry, then moves into garments that feel considered and precise. Each collection extends an existing framework, allowing the language of the house to deepen through use.

Today, CICAEDIA operates through three interconnected arms: CICAEDIA, CICAEDIA UOMO, and ATELIER CICAEDIA. Each one explores a distinct relationship to visibility within a shared design language.

CICAEDIA Womenswear treats dress as a controlled negotiation between fantasy and reality. The wearer authors desire deliberately. Through image and silhouette, she shapes how identity and sexuality are staged, perceived, and remembered. Glamour becomes an act of direction.

CICAEDIA UOMO is grounded in erotic absurdism. Menswear becomes a site for thought experiments around clothing and desire. Sexuality, humor, and contradiction are allowed to exist at once. Masculinity is treated as unstable and performative, with its codes examined through absurdity, seduction, and the fragile theater of legitimacy.

ATELIER CICAEDIA is the house’s highest expression of fantasy. It brings the ideas of both womenswear and menswear into their most intensified form. These works are defined by ambition, construction, and spectacle. Couture becomes a vehicle for desire at its fullest scale.

CICAEDIA designs for individuals drawn to expression and deliberate presence. Excess and refinement are allowed to exist in unison. The house assumes a wearer who edits instinctively and expects clothing to perform emotionally as well as practically.

There’s movement beneath the surface. Something emerges. And it sings.