Name: Fukuko
Last Name: Ando

Was born in 1964, Japan. In 1991 moved to Paris. In 1993 was working at Christian Dior. From 1995 is working as free designer. From 1999 till 2002 collaborated with Christian Lacroix on his haute-couture collection. In 2004 exhibited at the Biennale de Paris and at Design Week Monterrey in Mexico.

photo by Diana Lui

Each of her dresses is unique. You can�t tell that Fukuko Ando dresses are haute couture or pret-a-porter. It�s something special coloured using special technique with laces.

She says, “My creations are masses of energy. I fill them with good vibrations. This energy is invisible, like music. The melody envelops your body. These vibrations change the inner you. You can feel new sensations within. Your new energy then expands outside yourself. Now you can create your own universe. It’s your creation.”

Collection and Exhibition Pleiades: Fukuko Ando created a series of 140 dolls in summer 2005. They are twenty variations of seven sisters respectively named after the seven stars that form the Pleiades: Alcyone, Merope, Maya, Electra, Taygeta, Coele and Sterope. Fukuko Ando has endowed each doll with different codes and messages, based on her concept of ‘there are no two human bodies which are exactly the same’.

: Fukuko Ando created a in summer 2005. They are twenty variations of respectively named after the seven stars that form the Pleiades: Alcyone, Merope, Maya, Electra, Taygeta, Coele and Sterope. Fukuko Ando has endowed each doll with different codes and messages, based on her concept of ‘there are no two human bodies which are exactly the same’.Official Fukuko Ando site