CICAEDIA, a word born from the mispronunciation of the cicada’s scientific classification, is a ready-to-wear fashion house founded in 2021 by Sheryl Haut and the late David Rosenberg, and designed and directed by Yitzhak Rosenberg. Built on the belief that narrative can exist not only in words or images but in silhouette, construction, and atmosphere, CICAEDIA approaches fashion as language and collections as worlds, emotional, cinematic, and alive.

Since its inception, the house has presented various New York Fashion Week collections, each one expanding its vocabulary and refining its vision. Nearly every facet of CICAEDIA, from garment construction and conceptual development to casting, sound, set design, and visual direction, is executed under Rosenberg’s hand. While supported by trusted collaborators, the work remains defined by a singular perspective, obsessive in detail, ever evolving in mood, and always driven by narrative.

The house exists across three interconnected bodies of work. The womenswear line forms the cinematic core, where emotion becomes silhouette and sensuality takes shape. ATELIER CICAEDIA, launched in 2023, is the house’s creative heart, dedicated to transforming clients’ words, memories, and visions into one-of-one garments that push concept and craft to their limits. CICAEDIA UOMO, introduced in 2025, extends the language of the house into menswear, presenting a unisex line rooted in lived experience, philosophy, and psychological exploration. Together these three arms create a unified system, distinct in their voices yet bound by a shared DNA.

Each collection is conceived as a total environment, where lighting, sound, casting, and styling mirror the emotional state of the garments. The work is not concerned with mass production or commercial spectacle. It is driven by immersion, intimacy, and tension, a commitment to creating pieces and worlds that stay with you long after they leave your sight.

CICAEDIA is not fashion as surface. It is fashion as story, as experiment, as confrontation. It does not seek to blend in or wait for permission. It builds new vocabularies and reimagines what clothing can hold. And like the insect that gave it its name, it continues to return, transformed each season, carrying with it the promise of emergence and everything that follows.