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Mandala Lotus

Mandala Lotus

Blessings of the Lotus Flower

I had an intuition in 2020 that there would be dresses to make over my lifetime.When I was little, I read the story of Chūjō-hime (747–775). And I was very impressed.I always remembered that I longed for the process that the lotus thread was pulled out, and when it touched flowers of various colors,  the thread was dyed like a dream and the mandala was completed.


Chūjō-hime is credited with weaving the Lotus Thread, Taima Mandala, a mandala depicting the cosmography of the Pure Land. It is said that she managed this miracle in a single night. Some versions of the story say that she was aided in the task by an apparition of the great spiritin response to her prayers. Other beliefs hold that she was herself an incarnation of Kannon. Kannon is the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion, “goddess of mercy”.


At the beginning of creation, lotus flowers born from the swamps of the universe.A world of silence where various lotus mandalas continue to bloom and pray.In the center of the universe, the Creator God will prepare a new world.A world of eternal silence, lotus petals smiling gently like a goddess.Infinite prayers overlap across time and space.

当麻曼荼羅 Taima mandala
8th century mandala in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.


As long as I have my life, how many mandala prayers can I weave?If I can make 48 bodies, I’m sure I dream of opening a new world of Maitreya.Maitreya is a bodhisattva who was promised to become next Buddha.It is said that Maitreya Bodhisattva will appear in the future 5,670 million years after the destruction of Gautama Siddhartha and rescue the humain being.

Chūjō-hime (中将姫, Chūjō-himeMiddle Captain Princess)

When I was little, I read the story of Chūjō-hime (747–775). And I was very impressed.I always remembered that I longed for the process that the lotus thread was pulled out, and when it touched flowers of various colors,  the thread was dyed like a dream and the mandala was completed.

Fukuko Ando

Mandala Lotus Series

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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

( Fukuko Ando )

CHRISTIAN LACROIX

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de PARIS
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12 ROBES

“I have created dresses,

but what I wish to show you is the miracle of life…”

( Fukuko Ando )

Year / 2012

www.12robes.com

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PLEIADES

I was inspired by “The Pleiadian Agenda”, by Barbara Hand Clow

This book inspired me to create a “Cellular memory of the Universe”

( Fukuko Ando )

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:


ALCYONE
MEROPE
MAYA
ELECTRA
TAYGETA
CELEANO
STEROPE


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.

The Pleiades Seven Sisters dance to Eternal Joy.

We all dance to Eternal Joy. “

( Fukuko Ando )

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.

My Pleiades Seven Sisters creation (2005) Paris