Ikonostas x Light House

From 19/08 until 26/08, Light House resident Ikonostas moves into the Chinoiserie Room for a showcase of her current collections.

Expertly marrying modern dark feminine with vintage glamour, Ikonostas' pieces are as versatile as they are sensual. Her storytelling is a silken noir romance infused with kinky details that can easily be missed by innocent eyes.

Born near Milan and raised in Florence, Daniela Corcio's path to fashion began when she first saw Vivienne Westwood’s Café Society show, a revelation that led her to study Fashion Design at Polimoda alongside a degree in Philosophy at the University of Florence, grounding her work in both craft and critical thought.

While still an intern at Studio Cataldi in Italy, Daniela was invited to London to meet Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler. She was entrusted with the development of the Gold Label collections, working in close collaboration with Vivienne and Andreas for many years. Though based in Florence, she traveled regularly to London, balancing her role at Westwood with her own projects in theatre, performance art, and teaching.

It was in this intersection between fashion and art that the seeds of Ikonostas were planted. 

Technical and managerial expertise on one side, artistic research on the other, gave life to new pieces, at first a form of personal expression rather than a brand. 

Today, Ikonostas emerges as a way to subvert fashion rules.  Its name, drawn from Pavel Florensky’s writings on icons, reflects Daniela’s view of each garment as a visible symbol of the inner world. The designs merge lingerie and prêt-à-porter, theatre and couture, playful yet sacred, sensual and dramatic. 

Light House Open House / August 7th to August 9th

Genevieve Devine x Light House

Gracing the Chinoiserie Showroom from August 7th to August 15th, Genevieve Devine is an emerging label that reimagines the potential of salvage, craft and couture - teasing the boundary of artisanal craft and radical provocation.

Genevieve Devine launched her eponymous label in 2022 after leaving her native Newcastle for London and graduating from Central Saint Martins MA Fashion.

Working alongside her partner Isaac Murai, each piece emerges from their London-based atelier out of an evolving curation of reclaimed textiles, deadstock materials, and foraged objects. Prioritising silk, corsetry, leather and metal for their evocative and tactile natures, the garments are carefully caressed into being one by one. Seduced by the narrative potential of cut and cloth, they weave in reveries, notions and half-truths to capture an urgent moment of undressed, deshabillé beauty.

The work is defined by a raw, rebellious elegance, straddling the exquisite chaos of romantic deconstruction, alongside the contradictions of ‘emergent design’. With an insouciance underpinned by meticulous craft, each piece is an individual record of a process. The garments show their working and are all the richer for it.

Featured in Middle Plane, Document Journal and The Face, as well as earning a cult following among performers and artists like Caroline Polachek, Celeste and Nadia Lee Cohen. Genevieve Devine offers a vision of British fashion that is emotionally resonant, sustainably driven, and unapologetically idiosyncratic.

Most recently for Genevieve Devine was the international debut of ‘DEVINE BABY’ a capsule collection of one-offs pieces with the artist Dave Baby. Launched with a store takeover of Garden in Shibuya, Tokyo, the collection was accompanied by live garment customisations by the artist himself.