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, shaped through process, establishing a clear internal logic that 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: something engineered and difficult to place, resistant to immediacy. That sensibility continues to guide the house. CICAEDIA develops through continuity and accumulation, allowing its language to sharpen through use and lived reality. Fashion is approached as a sequence of statements. A system shaped over time.

CICAEDIA approaches clothing as something to be inhabited rather than consumed. Design begins with lived experience and material inquiry, translated into garments that feel considered and precise. It’s more intentional. The work is not trend-driven. Each collection extends an existing framework, allowing the language of the house to deepen rather than reset.

Today, CICAEDIA operates across three interconnected arms: CICAEDIA, CICAEDIA UOMO, and ATELIER CICAEDIA. Each explores a distinct relationship to visibility that moves toward desire within a shared but differentiated design language.

CICAEDIA Womenswear operates through cinematic self-construction, treating dress as a controlled negotiation between fantasy and reality. The wearer authors desire deliberately, shaping how identity and sexuality are staged and perceived through image and silhouette, expressed through presence. Appearance becomes an act of direction rather than expression alone, allowing her to move between versions of herself while remaining fully self-determined. Dress functions as a tool of authorship through which glamour is performed and perception continuously rewritten.

CICAEDIA UOMO is grounded in erotic absurdism, treating menswear as a series of thought experiments conducted through clothing and desire. Conceptual frameworks collide with instinct, allowing sexuality, humor, and contradiction to exist simultaneously. Masculinity is approached as something unstable and performative, examined through paradox, metaphor, and speculative constructs rather than affirmed through nostalgia or reference.

ATELIER CICAEDIA exists as the house’s highest expression of fantasy, where the ideas of both womenswear and menswear reach their most intensified form. Couture becomes the site of experimentation, allowing glamour to expand through construction and concept beyond function or category. These works are not defined by gender but by ambition, extending fantasy from both wearer and maker through craftsmanship expressed as precision and spectacle. ATELIER CICAEDIA preserves the discipline of couture while pushing its possibilities forward, treating technique as the vehicle through which desire is realized at its fullest scale.

CICAEDIA continues to present collections through immersive environments and live presentations, understood as one expression within a larger evolving framework. The house builds context around its garments, yet the clothing is designed to function beyond performance, moving through daily life and returning season after season with accumulated meaning through use. Across each arm of the house, clothing operates as a means of shaping how one is seen and desired, ultimately remembered.

CICAEDIA designs for individuals drawn to expression, ornament, and deliberate presence, where excess and refinement exist in unison rather than opposition. The house assumes a wearer who edits instinctively, expecting clothing to perform both emotionally and practically while understanding dress as a form of self-authorship.

“The best clothes don’t ask for attention. They assume it.”

There’s movement beneath the surface.

Something emerges.

And it sings.