downtown lives, as well as their backgrounds in design, music, fashion, and photography,

Celebrity fans include Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Julia Roberts, Daniel Craig, Kate Bosworth, Katy Perry, Alexa Chung, Kirsten Dunst, MIA, Daniel Silberman, Vanessa Hudgens, and Sienna Miller. Illesteva is stocked by better retailers worldwide including Barneys NY, Opening Ceremony NY and LA, Colette Paris, Lane Crawford Hong Kong, Browns London , MR Porter ans Net-a-Porter.

Daniel Silberman was interested in design, photography and old movies from an early age. Finding it difficult to track down a pair of sunglasses that he liked as much as his first pair, a gift from his Grandfather. He decided to start Illesteva. With little background knowledge of eyewear and youthful eagerness, which both aided and created obstacles, he found a small factory in Italy who was willing to work with him and born was Illesteva.

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Illesteva Collaboration include Opening Ceremony, Corto Moltedo, Dasha Zhukova, Andre Saraiva and Band of Outsiders.

Illesteva signed its first Licensing agreement in 2011 with Zac Posen