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
By 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 “