Atlas of Fashion Designers

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Fukuko Ando

Fukuko Ando

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If one word could encapsulate the work of this Japanese designer, it would be “poetry”:

poetry in the way she creates her garments, beginning with the sensation that the textures

of the fabrics produce in her fi ngertips; poetry in the way she extracts from her materials

diff erent modes of covering a model while utilizing volumes in the creation of a dress as if

she were fashioning a work of pottery.

After completing her studies in literature, she decided to enroll as a fashion design student

at the Mode Gakuen vocational school in Nagoya. She later continued her design training

at the renowned Chambre Syndicale de ...