Iracema Trevisan Carneiro (born September 28, 1981 in Poços de Caldas

Poços de Caldas

Poços de Caldas is a city and municipality in south-western Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name. Its estimated population in 2009 was 151,449 inhabitants...

, Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

), also known as Ira, was the bassist for Brazilian indie-electro band CSS.

She was one of the people in charge of calling friends to start the group - as a joke. She studied fashion design

Fashion design

Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....

 at college and worked as style assistant for designer Alexandre Herchcovitch

Alexandre Herchcovitch

Alexandre Herchcovitch is a Brazilian fashion designer. He's of Jewish descent, his grandparents emigrated from Poland and Romania.-Overview:...

 in São Paulo. She organizes her clothes by color, likes photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

and, besides her serious and austere look, has great charisma.

She left the band in April 2008. She lives in Paris now and continues her career as a fashion designer, being part of the IFM fashion design program.