Author: Fukuko Ando

In front of the mirror, I work with the wooden mannequin on which I directly sculpt the dress form by the fabric. The dress has 360 degrees awareness.

Ando’s work is based on a simple proposition : ” Each person has a body.
The body expresses a person’s story and history, the dress is a language the expresses that body , the human body and the dress are both founded on the same principle: constant, unbroken perception “

Fukuko Ando

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Be happy / Blue

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date March 1, 2020

Truth – Love
( Fukuko Ando )

Made of silk muslin
Year / 2005

#truthlove #behappy

Exhibit

The New Alchemy

New alchemy is transformation by fire and water.

Fire burns with the soul of water.

Water moves with the heat of fire.

There is new alchemy as light and shadow constantly cross and fuse.
( Fukuko Ando )

Franz Mayer Museum
( Mexico CDMX 2014)

Made of Crystal Swarovski, silk satin, silk muslin and sequins,
Year / 2008

Special thanks to:
Luisa Sáenz

Exhibit

New Eden

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 14, 2020

The window display of a hotel on Faubourg Saint-Honore, behind the “Place de la Concorde in Paris”

A place with the cruel guillotine history of Marie-Antoinette.

I wanted to present it as the rebirth of the Paradise of Light.
( Fukuko Ando )

Exhibition: New Eden at hotel le Faubourg- Paris
Made on Crystal / 2007

Special Thanks To: Juan 2Santos

Exhibit

Museum of Decorative Arts

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Post date February 14, 2020
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21st century dresses breathe in 18th century decorative art.
The religion and aristocracy of the 18th century are fused with eternal dresses beyond time and space.
( Fukuko Ando )

Lisboa / Portugal
Year / 2015

Photography: Frederico Teles

Special thanks to: Juan Dos Santos

Exhibit

Visions of the Body

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 14, 2020

Fashion is starting a new dialogue with the body, that is, the inner side of the wearer, and the function and sense of the body itself. Various researches are undertaken today in the realm involving ” the body”, the most fundamental issue concerning the existence of human beings. With the collection of modern dresses from the Kyoto costume institute.
( Fukuko Ando )

Tokyo and Kyoto
Visions of the Body 1999

Drawings

Paintbrush

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 13, 2020

The lines and movement flow into the air.
( Fukuko Ando )

I made these paintbrush drawings in 2005

Drawings

Ballpoint pen

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 13, 2020

Human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond
( Fukuko Ando )

I made these ballpoint pen drawings in 1995

Knots

Notre Dame Y

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 13, 2020

Notre Dame X

I made this dress inspired by Notre Dame de Paris in 1994
( Notre Dame X and Notre Dame Y )

Made of purple velvet
Year / 1994

#knottechnique #notredame #purplevelvetfabric

Drawings

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

The truth of the dress is not the detail…
but the movement of the dress in time and three-dimensional space.

This is how I drew the soul of the dress that I created.
( Fukuko Ando )

Paintbrush

Ballpoint pen

Drawings

Fashion show

DWM Mexico

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

For my first time in Mexico I was invited by Cedim Design School at Mexico Design Week.

I created a Performance with Mexican modern dancers.
( Fukuko Ando )

DWM Mexico
Year / 2004

Special thanks to:
Alfredo Salazar and Juan 2Santos

Exhibit

Biennale Paris

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

The Paris biennale 2004 can be defined as the continuation of the Paris Biennale launched by Raymond Cogniat in 1959 and set up by André Malraux as he was Minister of Culture, and which ended in 1985. The target of that exhibition was to present an overview of young creativity worldwide, to create a place of experiences and meetings.
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Atelier Richelieu
“The Path of Light”
2004

Photos: Michael Wayne Plant
Special Thanks To: Juan 2Santos

Exhibit

Sayoko Kobe Fashion Museum

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020
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Its theme is Sayoko Yamaguchi, who was praised as a dramatic emergence of ” Beauty” for her beautiful yet powerful and supple expression of movement when she appeared as a model at the first Paris prêt-à-porter collection in 1972. Her life-sized mannequins with movable joints wear dresses, synchronize with dresses, and breathe with dresses in a moving space as time slowly goes by.

Kobe Japon – 2001
Fukuko Ando

Phoenix
( Fukuko Ando )

In the 21st century
What can you share?
Everything has come to end and has been reborn.
Renaissance.
I can say with much gratitude and happiness.
Now,
Only who you are in true.
A Phenix,
I would like to see you reborn.
An open heart, a released body, a freely flying phenix.
Love,
New love is growing in you
With deeper understanding and stronger senses.
You accept everything with a smile on your face.
21st century,
I am happy it we can share a much deeper and broader love.

Exhibit

Pleiades

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

Ionic columns in Pershing Hall – Paris reminded me of a Greek temple

Like the future stars of the Pleiades, growing like new plants from the earth, swaying in the wind of ancient mythology
( Fukuko Ando )

Pleiades : Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters
Seven Souls
Seven Souls live in you
The first dwells at the tips of your toes
While the second to the sixth swirl round you,
Up to your crown
The seventh abides still higher
All seven pulsate with life

Truth – Exists. CELAENO
Love-Grows. STEROPE
Harmony-Moves. TAYGETA
Awareness-Creates. ELECTRA
Peace-Rests. MAYA
Happiness -Transcends all. MEROPE
Plenitude-Eternal Joy AlCYONE

Seven Sisters
Seven Souls
We are different
We are ONE

Pleiades Pershing Hall
Champs Elysées – Paris
Fukuko Ando

Year: 2006

Juan 2Santos / Artistic Direction
Luigi Migani / Dolls Photos
Michael Wayne Plant / Exposition Photos
Jorge Govea / Sound Design
Fxballéry / Scenography
Naomi Lebbadi / Photo And Design
Kiki de Salvertes / ℅ Totem Contact Press

Special Thanks to:

Swarowsky / “Satya” Crystal Decoration Dress
Anne Brancaleone
Corinne Martinez
Philippe Saugier
Carole Belenus
Philippe Test
Muriel Elinger
Irène Tsuji
Katrin Hanneschläer

Photos:
Michael Wayne Plant

Fashion show

Biennale de Paris

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

The Paris biennale 2004 can be defined as the continuation of the Paris Biennale launched by Raymond Cogniat in 1959 and set up by André Malraux as he was Minister of Culture, and which ended in 1985.

The target of that exhibition was to present an overview of young creativity worldwide, to create a place of experiences and meetings.
( Fukuko Ando )

FASHION SHOW / Year: 2004

Special Thanks To: Juan 2Santos
Photos: Michael Wayne Plant

Fashion show

Unique Piece Collection

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

1996

My first fashion show since coming to Paris.

A place near the sky where you can see the Eiffel Tower.

I fitted the models one by one to find one original model who fits one original dress.

It overlapped with their youthful purity and my youthful passion.
( Fukuko Ando )

Photos: Katsuya Koike

Fashion show

The Golden Promise

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

I took part in the Paris Fashion Week prêt-à-porter 2006 edition, with a performance by Opéra de Paris Dancers.

I named this show “Golden Promise” with the wish of eternal creation.

The golden light is shining forever
( Fukuko Ando )

Fashion show Performance ‘’The Golden Promise ‘’ Paris 2006
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts – Paris
2006

Special Thanks to:

Dancer Opera House Paris :

Marie-Agnès Gillot / Danseuse Étoile /
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Charlotte Ranson
Miteki Kudo
Eve Grinsztajn
Ninon Raux
Charline Giezendanner
Sabrina Mallem
Aurelia Bellet
Emilie Hasboun
Beatrice Martel
Laurène Lévy
Amélie Lamoureux
Myriam Kamionka
Juliette Aérop
Audrey Aubert

Franck Berjont / Choreographer and Director
Jorge Govea ( Wakal ) / Live Music and DJ set
Juan 2Santos / Artistic Direction
Fabienne Larcher / 1st Art Direction Assistant
Make up / Kim Bourhila and Shu Uemura

Performance Sacred Places

Le Masque de Nô

Nô mask has been neglected for a long time.
In the sculpture garden of Yasuo Mizui in Lacoste, France, a dancer wearing the kimono of his first wife, Kiyoko, and wearing Nô mask that Yasuo had preserved.
In a forgotten garden, Nô mask sometimes cries, laughs, and gets angry.
The fantasy memory begins to move with sculptures, Nô mask, and kimono.
( Fukuko Ando )

Franco -Japanese Collaboration
FRANCE

Year / 2016

Performance Sacred Places

Kumano Kodō

The Kumano Kodō is a series of ancient pilgrimage routes of Japan. It is the path of the wisdom and patience of the old, and some trees are more than 800 years old.

In that space, a dancer wearing a yellow “wisdom of light” dress concentrates her soul and has a conversation connecting with “the pilgrim’s wisdom” in space and time.
( Fukuko Ando )

(熊野古道)

Franco-Japanese Collaboration
A French Performance:
**Sacred Places**
JAPAN

Year / 2017

Kumano Kodō
(熊野古道)

Performance
Franco-Japanese Collaboration
A French Performance: Sacred Places

Place: Kumano Kodō / Japan
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Performance: Soluna de Cock (France)
Dress: Fukuko Ando (Japan)

Date: 17th October 2017
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Performance Sacred Places

Amanohashidate

Post author By Fukuko Ando
Post date February 10, 2020

The Myth of the Floating Bridge in the heavens there are legends stating that Amanohashidate was originally a ladder used by the god Izanagi No Mikoto to visit his lover the goddess Izanami No Mikoto (Izanagi No Mikoto and Izanami No Mikoto are the gods credited with the creation of Japan)

Legend has it that the ladder fell out of the sky into the ocean and became Amanohashidate.
( Fukuko Ando )