Fukuko ando biography of abraham

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

different 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 la Couture Parisienne, with the goal of understand-

ing Western body forms. And there’s no doubt she was successful in this endeavor, as the

work of this personal and intimate designer with such big-name firms in French fashion as

Christian Dior and Christian Lacroix makes undoubtedly clear.

From these masters