Esther Dariet Casanova is a Dominican artist and fashion professional moving fluidly between fashion design, styling, wardrobe, and visual research. Born in La Romana in 1994, earned her Associates degree in Fine Arts and illustration on 2015 from La Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavón, and received one for Fashion Design the next year. May 2016 she wins the IED Barcelona, “Creactívate” international scholarship contest, where she studies for a year before returning to her country.
Taking the process of creation itself as the core of her work—understood as both a conceptual tool and a practical language for questioning systems of value, power, and representation—Casanova’s approach centers on transformation: deconstructing garments, images, and roles to assign them multiple functions and meanings. Through this process of rearrangement, her work interrogates social constructs, dysfunctions, and hierarchies, while simultaneously celebrating craft, movement, and expression at their highest level.
Alongside her artistic practice, she has built an extensive professional career in international fashion styling and wardrobe for music, live performance, advertising, and audiovisual productions. Her work spans editorial projects, large-scale concerts, a global tour, award ceremonies, and commercial campaigns. She regularly collaborates with artists, designers, production teams, and institutions across the Americas.
In 2017, she co-founded ETOLA, an independent fashion label that functions as both a design studio and a conceptual laboratory, allowing her to merge garment creation with research, storytelling, and visual identity. This dual practice—artistic and applied—continues to shape her perspective, situating fashion as a critical and expressive medium rather.
Her work is informed by cross-cultural experience, sustained international collaboration, and a constant dialogue between theory and practice.
