When you try to dissolve the rainbow in the sky, the rainbow-colored mist wraps around your body
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of silk muslin
Year / 2000
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 “
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Just as white petals fly over the body, the flowers of pure water moisten the cells
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of White silk muslin
Year / 2004
#waterfall
In the silence of a cave where no one is, you can feel the light from the sky and receive the sound of dripping water on your body.
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of light blue silk muslin
Year / 2005
#Water
#Rainbow
Fukuko Ando – Drops of water
Transparent water flowing over the body
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of blue silk muslin
Year / 1993
#thewather
Fukuko Ando – The Water Fukuko Ando – The Water 
A transparent black butterfly flies like dream that melts in and out of the darkness
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of black silk muslin
Year / 2004
Moved by browsing around the chest, drop sharply below. A little emotion sways in the heart of the chest
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of black silk red silk
Year / 1994
Create a body-shaped form with pin tack
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of black silk, gold thread
Year / 1994
Create a body-shaped form with pin tack
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of black silk, silver thread
Year / 1994
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CRYSTAL SWAROVSKI
Light body, transparent crystal, new Eden.
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of CRYSTAL SWAROVSKI
Yeay/ 2007
#crystal
#swarovski
#eden
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STITCHING
Adding more stitches to the top of the pin-tuck creates a stitching wave with movement
( Fukuko Ando )
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Crochet & Spangle
The hand made crochet with several materials opens up the creativity of sensation
( Fukuko Ando )
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SPIRAL
Spiral lines around the body destroy the notion of seams as a preconception. Open your mind, spiral lines around the body break the prejudice in your brain. If the seam line changes, the perception of the body changes.
( Fukuko Ando )
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INCRUSTATION
By drawing a geometric pattern on the body and patchworking it, the geometric pattern hidden in the body is expressed in three dimensions.
( Fukuko Ando )
Draw a geometric pattern on the body and patchwork it. Human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
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COATS
A new surface effect is created by putting all the seams on the surface and wrapping them.
( Fukuko Ando )
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NERVES
The nerves / pin – tack on the fabric create the natural shape on the body and give the original decoration on the fabric
( Fukuko Ando )
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SHIBORI
Shibori is a Japanese manual resist dyeing technique, which produces a number of different patterns on fabric
( Fukuko Ando )
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TRANSPARENCY
The effect between shadow and light gives the most presence to the body
( Fukuko Ando )
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KNOTS
The flexibility of bias fabric creates the shape on the body
( Fukuko Ando )
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Mount Fuji
Dance dedicated to Konohanasakuya-hime.
( Fukuko Ando )
Konohanasakuya-hime means “cherry blossom blooming princess” in Japanese mythology.
She is the goddess of Mount Fuji.
The red dress expresses the energy of the goddess of Mt. Fuji, with white veins running on a powerful red volcano.
(富士山)
Japan
Franco-Japanese Collaboration
A French Performance:
**Sacred Places**
Year / 2017
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Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix’s Haute Couture collection starts three months before the collection. The art director gives a color copy of the concept presented by the Maison, from which I inspire and make samples. It was always a job that required something new and original. Christian Lacroix’s Maison was a loving space that prioritized creation.
( Fukuko Ando )
My first job was freestyle crochet. Choose from a variety of materials and colors to spin time and space intuitively. Normally, it is a knitted fabric that tends to be flat, but my original intention was to consciously give a decorative and three-dimensional effect.
Couture Collection
1999-2003
The lace band is transformed into a new and fun rhythmic decoration by applying sequins, beads, new ribbons decorations and various thread embroidery
( Fukuko Ando )
Embossed effect of flat fabric by using a large pintack, that creates a volume and a three-dimensional movement
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CHRISTIAN LACROIX
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de PARIS
“I decided to create 12 dresses until 2012.
Fukuko Ando
The Universe holds our original memory…
Creating these 12 dresses was a communication with the memory of the Universe…
I made the dresses without drawing on anything external such as shape, color or structure.
Each moment, the dress makes itself, the same way the Universe creates itself.”
“I have created dresses,
Fukuko Ando
but what I wish to show you is the miracle of life…”
Chronological order :
| I | L’Archange METATRON | 2008 |
| II | Le Code MAYA – X – l’argent | 2009 |
| III | Le Code MAYA – Y – l’or | 2009 |
| IV | Le GRAAL 1 – nouvelle Tri-unité | 2010 |
| V | Le GRAAL 2 – nouvelle Tri-unité | 2010 |
| VI | Le GRAAL 3 – nouvelle Tri-unité | 2010 |
| VII | La Fleur du TEMPS | 2011 |
| VIII | Le feu de l’ESPRIT | 2011 |
| IX | Le feu du CIEL | 2011 |
| X | Le VERBE Créateur Y | 2012 |
| XI | Le VERBE Créateur X | 2012 |
| XII | L’ANDROGYNE PRIMORDIAL | 2012 |
Related Textes
I was inspired by “The Pleiadian Agenda”, by Barbara Hand Clow
( Fukuko Ando )
This book inspired me to create a “Cellular memory of the Universe”
Pleiades – Eternal joy
In ‘The Pleiadian Agenda’, Barbara Hand Clow writes:
‘What is a cosmology?
According to Earth astronomers, a cosmology studies the nature of the origin, structure, and spacetime relationships of the universe.
Well, we Pleiadians will go much further. To us, a cosmology is a story of existence in time that awakens your cellular memory.
What is cellular memory? Cellular memory is the memory of all that has ever occurred in the universe that is encoded right in the cells in your body.
You already know about this New Cosmology for the Age of Light, and all you need now in to hear the story told again.’
The cluster of stars known as the Pleiades is also known as the Seven Sisters:
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
Photos: Luigi Migani
Year / 2005
JOY
The intention I infuse into this work is that the Pleiades Seven Sisters should give rise to a spontaneous and joyous burst of laughter in anyone who sees them, that we hear the music of the spheres through them, that we join in their dance of joy, that with them, we dance the Universe.
” The universe dances to Eternal Joy.
( Fukuko Ando )
The Pleiades Seven Sisters dance to Eternal Joy.
We all dance to Eternal Joy. “
My Pleiades Seven Sisters creation ( 2005 ) was exhibited in Tokyo , Paris and Lisbon on 20 February 2020 more info here. I saw that work as a seed, flowering now: Pleiades on Earth.
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SATYA
The Goddess Satya Crowned.The Goddess Satya is the mother goddess of the Pleiades. A five-dimensional mother who has been asleep for a long time now wakes up.
( Fukuko Ando )
Year / 2016
Performance: Soluna de Cock (France)
Dress: Fukuko Ando (Japan)
Soundtrack : Gilles Monfort
Voices and Sound Design : Jorge Govea STUDIO W
Hairstyle and flower Crown : Yuta Umeda
The Goddess Satya,
I see your face. Are you sleeping? Where are you?
You are the Goddess at the centre of the Universe, long without your crown.
Yes, you are so sad, so alone.
Goddess Satya, Time has been waiting for you.
Can you hear Time?
The time to wake up is now.
You stir, awaking.
Time is ready.
You dance.
You dance through the Universe.
You dance as the mother of the Universe.
Now you are crowned.
Man is ready.
I hear your voice.
Your clear voice.
Your voice resonates throughout the Universe.
You are the mother of the Universe.
The Universe is ONE.
You are the apogee of Time.
You sing.
Your voice resonates through the Universe; Man listens to your voice.
Joy.
Man opens.
The Goddess Satya is crowned.
Traduction english / Anne Brancaleone
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CELEBRATION
The celebration of dance for the unification of the universe.
“Let’s celebrate that we are, light and love …
Fukuko Ando
Let’s celebrate the eternal dance of life “
Credits :
** CELEBRATION **
( Video Dance Performance )
ASVOFF 2014 / Mexico City edition
Concept and original idea
Fukuko Ando
Visual Direction and Music selection
Jorge Govea
Choreography
Marisol Cal y Mayor / Altagracia Company
Production of video projection
Héctor Cruz
Dresses
Fukuko Ando
Dancers:
Dalel Bacre
Marisol Cal y Mayor
Julia Farber
Stephanie Janaina
Aileen Kent
Mary Patricia Koyack
Priscila Solórzano
Special thanks to:
Luisa Saenz
Swarovski / Cut Glass
Music:
“Las Estrellas de Los Cielos”
Díaspora Sefardí / Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI
“Danse De l’Âme”
Orient-Occident / Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI
“Trad Kathisme De L’Office De La Nativité – Li-Mâdhâ Ta’Jabina Yâ Mariamu
Marie Keyrouz
Music Arrangements / Jorge Govea / Saint-Maurice Studio / Paris France
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AMATERASU
Amaterasu is a deity of the Japanese myth cycle and also a major deity of the Shinto religion. She is seen as the goddess of the sun and the universe. ‘
‘If you can feel your inner dance, then you already found me … Amaterasu.”
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PERFORMANCE
Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo
Largo das Portas do Sol, 2
1100-411 Lisboa
Lisbon / PORTUGAL
YEAR 2015
Credits:
Performance: “AMATERASU”
Original idea: Fukuko Ando
Music and Live Act: Jorge Govea
Butoh Dancer: Solène De Cock
Production: Juan 2Santos
Hair: Aurelio Ramos (Using Sachajuan)
Hair assistants: Sara Carvalho and Marcio Neris
Make-up: Cristina Neto
Special thanks:
Conceição Amaral / President Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva
Ana Sim-Sim
Pedro Reis Gomes / Stage Set Up
Filipa Coelho
Arts and Crafts Workshops – Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation
Maria Marques and Camila Ferraro
Nuno Neves / Other Features Unipessoal Lda
Mariana Correia and Ana Pires.
Amaterasu Soundtrack
Dress
Rehearsal
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INTENTION
Our intention
Japan / 2020
Modern Japan is well-regarded internationally, but what of the deeper spirit of Japan? My Japanese contemporaries seem to have forgotten the sacred knowledge of the origin of Japan. This deeper knowledge arises only when one’s awareness has been refined through regular presence in a sacred place. This is the true strength of Japan. Why is France the proper place for this exhibition? Living in Paris for 25 years, I have felt that many French people respect the authentic spirit of Japan and show a keen wish to discover more about it. I have observed that French practitioners of the Japanese arts of judo, aikido and karate work seriously and assiduously at their practice, often showing a greater grasp of the original purity of Japan than is shown by the Japanese themselves. Although I am Japanese and grew up in Japan, my awareness of the deeper essence of the Japanese spirit developed only during my years in Paris, when I saw how the French respected and understood Japanese culture.
After 25 years in Paris, I have returned to live in Japan where I act as a link between France and Japan, both forever united in my heart with a deep sense of gratitude.
I met the dancer Soluna in Paris. Her dance is a soulful conversation with the sacred spirit of Japan. I wanted her movement to express the sacred dimension of Japan, and the union of the sacred spirit of Japan with the soul of France. I make dresses; this is the creative path I have followed for 25 years. The first time I saw the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre, I felt the powerful, sacred energy of this statue as though it were alive and immortal: Grace taking form through the wind, symbol of complete freedom. I recognized that same freedom in the dresses created by Madeleine Vionnet. I developed my own way of creating dresses in that spirit of freedom, working with a full-size mannequin in front of a mirror. My intention has been to create dresses that convey the same experience as the Winged Victory: complete freedom. Like the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the dancer is united with the dress of freedom. Wearing this dress, she visited and performed at the sacred sites of Japan in October 2017.
I would like to show the sacred dimension of Japan by presenting the dress of freedom in France, to serve as a bridge that reveals the sacred spirit of both Japan and France. This is my wish.
Related Posts : PERFORMANCE
SACRED PLACES
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The spiritualisation of Matter
The spiritualisation of Matter
Matter becomes Spirit
The spiritualisation of Matter
Allow spirit to act through Matter
This is not to use Matter in an attempt to understand, to explain, to take over.
It is rather to surrender oneself, allowing Spirit to penetrate Matter
Love is found between the surrender of self and the surrender to Spirit.
Hands, now imbued with this Love, touch Matter
Matter fuses with this Love
The spiritualisation of Matter
Fukuko Ando / 2013
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The miracle of life
“I have created dresses,
but what I wish to show you is the miracle of life.
A miracle is the realization and the materialization of that which seems impossible.
A tear turning into a diamond is not a miracle.
The existence of Life from moment to moment, celebrated in each instant.
This is miracle.”
Related Posts :
12 Robes
Fukuko Ando
1) L’Archange METATRON
DO – RE – MI – SI – LA
Floating in empty space, millions of light-years separation us from each other. Galaxie are the cells of the Universe.
2) Le Code MAYA – X – l’argent
OMEGA : over ten million stars
3) Le Code MAYA – Y – l’or
ALPHA : a tiny region of the Milky Way
4,5,6 ) Le GRAAL – nouvelle Tri-Unité –
three Grail dresses are ONE
The quest for a sacred object as life’s goal, even risking one’s very life,
demonstrates that one’s purpose may be more important than one’s own existence.
BEFORE A BETTER WORLD
7) La Fleur du TEMPS
New Birth
The sound of time arises in the Universe, above and beyond time.
8) Le feu de l’ESPRIT
The flame of spirit burns, but does not consume itself.
9) Le feu du CIEL
Water from the heavens, water from above, bringing boundless love,
endlessly flowing.
10) Le VERBE Créateur – Y
After the pouring of water from above, long silence.
And the Créative WORD is the birth of eternal light – the New DNA
11) Le VERBE Créateur – X
After the pouring of water from above, long silence.
And the Créative WORD is the birth of eternal light – the New DNA
12) L’ANDROGYNE PRIMORDIAL
Union and Dissolution : the time of the androgyne.
Light : ONE essential vibration, having come from the Heavens and from the Earth, the miracle of Oneness resonating above and below.
AlPHA and OMEGA
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The Theory of Everything
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
On a subtle level, a dress can be said to express the 4 fundamental forces/ interactions of nature and their different relative intensities, very much as the structure of the humain being does. These 4 forces organize and structure all interactions on the dimensional, temporal and spatial levels, according to the Theory of Everything.
Fukuko Ando
“On a subtle level, the dress can be said to express the 4 fundamental forces/ interactions of nature and their different relative intensities, very much as the structure of the humain being does. These 4 forces organize and structure all interactions on the dimensional, temporal and spatial levels, according to the Theory of Everything.“
< VIBRATION >
The dress has its own inherent vibration. As we follow that vibration, the dress literally takes on its shape, color, characteristics. The dress becomes its vibration as part of Everything. This vibration finds its way to the cells and the very atoms within the body. The body and the dress vibrate together, inwardly as well as outwardly.
< RESONANCE >
Everything that exists in nature has resonance, creating connection and communication. Life finds its unity in direct connection with Everything through the medium of resonance.The dress resonates in the flesh, in the memory and in the mind. This unification between the body and the dress generates a new resonance.
< CONSCIOUSNESS >
Being aware, from moment to moment, of the hart’s breath, the energy, particles and waves which give rise to the ceaseless transformation of all forms.
< MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERFECTION OF THE BODY >
The body is changing each and every moment, yet it is stable in time and space. These aspects of body overlap in an act synchronous manner. Seen from a multidimensional perspective, the dress becomes infinitely small and infinitely large, microcosm and macrocosm, as does the subtle composition of the body; from celle to atom or DNA.
The unified dress is a dress of vibration, sharp, color, organization, free from all fixedness in the body. It is a complete UNIFICATION of the present moment.