Japanese born designer Fukuko Ando has a very personal vision about fashion. After her studies at the Nagoya School of Fashion, stimulated and interested in European fashion, Ando decides to move to Paris in 1991, where she joins the postgraduate program at the “Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne”. Lively and curious, Ando does not segregate herself to the fashion world and she explores different territories of culture, religions, following paths not only cultural but also artistic. After collaborating with Christian Dior and Christian Lacroix, Ando matured a confident knowledge of the technique and successfully elaborates her own collection. Mostly working with natural noble fabrics, her garments are the result of a long process.
Ando’s clothing reflects her spiritual approach to life: all of her items are directly draped and sewn on a mannequin, while the designer with the support of a mirror checks the evolution of the dress on 360 degrees. Consciously ignoring the pattern and the geometry of traditional fashion, Ando creates clothing that respects the body, following its own natural shape.
Often courted by the art world because of her original presentations and her approach to the fashion business, today Ando is confident of her role as a fashion designer. Taking a distance from most contemporary abstract fashion design, Ando constantly looks for the perfect harmony between the body and the fabric, creating dresses infinitely close to human nature.
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