BIOGRAPHY

Fukuko Ando

Born 18 January 1964, Japan.
Japanese designer Fukuko Ando has a very personal vision of the creative art of dress design.

Her unique creative process and style developed over time in France, going beyond the boundaries of conventional fashion. The dresses she creates express different aspects of spirituality and consciousness in our times. She explores the inner nature of the dress at its very core and looks at the existential universality of the dress.

She honed her technical skills in Paris, working for Christian Dior and Christian Lacroix, before launching her own collection. Her creations are the result of her own long and demanding process, in which her handiwork transforms ordinary fabrics and materials. Her dresses reflect a deeply spiritual vision of her own life. All her creations are made directly on wooden mannequins, facing each other in front of a mirror. The mannequin is rotated 360 degrees in front of the mirror, allowing the viewer to see the balance of the entire work from a distance while working with her hands at close range during the creative process. The mirror allows for macro and micro work.

Consciously excluding traditional fashion patterns and procedures, Ando creates the dress first and foremost in respect of and in accordance with the natural shape of the human body. She sublimates both classical creative techniques and the natural shapes and movements of the human body, skilfully blending them together.

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

Ando’s creations show us an imprint of the past and our history, and transcending what we know as fashion, they reveal a multi-facetted vision of future possibilities.

My first creation:

“Victory of Samothrace“

MOUNT FUJI international competition
First prize – Japan 1992
Fusion of Japan and Art Nouveau in Paris

Made of rayon silk , technique : Knots