Ivana Omazic

Ivana Omazic is a Croatian fashion designer, born in Zagreb in 1973. She studied at the European Institute of Design in Milan and began her career with Romeo Gigli before joining the Prada Group. Her roles there included work on Prada Sport and Jil Sander, followed by responsibility as women’s ready-to-wear design coordinator at Miu Miu. Celine appointed her artistic director in July 2005 after she had joined the house as a consultant earlier that year.

Omazic led Celine until 2008, when Phoebe Philo succeeded her. She later worked in a senior creative capacity at Maison Martin Margiela and launched independent projects including IO Ivana Omazić. She began directing 1972 DESA in 2024. Her first collections for the label were Autumn/Winter 2024–25 and Spring/Summer 2025, and she remained associated with 1972 DESA through Autumn/Winter 2026.

Omazic’s approach begins with construction and material. She has described learning at Prada to combine high-technology fabrics with feminine shapes, and later framed her independent work around the tension between perfection and imperfection. These ideas place technical control beside deliberate irregularity, allowing finish, proportion and material behaviour to carry the design.

At 1972 DESA she works through leather, using cut, volume, colour and surface to build structured garments with practical weight and movement. Her collections rework wardrobe forms through supple nappa, shearling, weaving, laser engraving and modular construction. Across corporate houses, her own label and the leather specialist, the consistent thread is attention to proportion, fabrication and wearability, with material or finish introducing tension into an otherwise disciplined silhouette.