Ivana Helsinki

Ivana Helsinki is the brainchild of Paola Ivana Suhonen, a Finnish design visionary and short filmmaker with the soul of a poet. Run by Suhonen and her sister Pirjo from their downtown Helsinki atelier, the line features magical, romantic frocks that capture winter-born melancholia with the pure joy of white arctic summer nights. A genius at mixing traditional femininity with modern attitude, Suhonen always throws in a bit of whimsy, perhaps in the form of a print, a trim or a color story. Her collections unfold like fables.