Fukuko AndoIn 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
Inspiration from the Alhambra palace,Various bells sound around the body.
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Made of Cotton Sibori, Silk, and Embroidery thread
Year / 1995
Acquisition Kyoto Costume Institute Museum – Japan Inspiration from the Alhambra palace,Various bells sound around the body
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of Cotton Sibori, Silk, Embroidery thread
Year / 1995
Peace – Joy
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of silk muslin
Year / 2005
Quetzalcoatl means “feathered serpent ” The earliest known documentation of the worship of a Feathered Serpent occurs in Teotihuacan in the first century BC.
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of rayon silk
Year / 2006
Weave the wisdom of pure blood
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Made of red silk
Year / 2005
This dress was selected out of ten models in France – Paris,
( International competition for young fashion designers / 32 countries )
Heaven and hell, crystal of light shining in darkness
Made of black silk satin, white silk muslin
Year / 1992
Awareness – Peace
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of silk muslin
Year / 2005
Harmony – Awareness
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of silk muslin
Year / 2005
Love – harmony
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of silk muslin
Year / 2005
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
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
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
Transparent water flowing over the body
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of blue silk muslin
Year / 1993
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
Light body, transparent crystal, new Eden.
( Fukuko Ando )
Made of CRYSTAL SWAROVSKI
Yeay/ 2007
Adding more stitches to the top of the pin-tuck creates a stitching wave with movement
( Fukuko Ando )
The hand made crochet with several materials opens up the creativity of sensation
( Fukuko Ando )
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 )
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.
A new surface effect is created by putting all the seams on the surface and wrapping them.
( Fukuko Ando )
The nerves / pin – tack on the fabric create the natural shape on the body and give the original decoration on the fabric
( Fukuko Ando )
Shibori is a Japanese manual resist dyeing technique, which produces a number of different patterns on fabric
( Fukuko Ando )
The effect between shadow and light gives the most presence to the body
( Fukuko Ando )
The flexibility of bias fabric creates the shape on the body
( Fukuko Ando )
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**
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
( Fukuko Ando )
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…”
| 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 |
