TikTok-Famous Designer Joe Ando Wants to Make You a Dress—and Maybe a Couple of Cute Tops
glamour.comfrom.It was his work with Second Daughter Ella Emhoff for the Democratic National Convention, however, that elevated Ando from “TikTok dress guy” to a real industry contender.
And Ando can feel it. He recounts his name being mentioned in the same article as an old boss, the designer Laura Kim, whose brand was . “That was crazy,” he said, “because the last time I saw [Kim] in person was in their studio space at Monse, [and I was sewing] with her at like 2:00 in the morning.”As with many artists, what seems like an overnight success story was actually years in the making.
On a recent Sunday morning in the middle of New York Fashion Week, Ando, in partnership with the skincare brand EOS, opened up to a select group of fashion journalists about his nascent career and unconventional rise in the notoriously fickle fashion industry.
Born in India to a French father and Japanese mother, both creative professionals, Ando mostly grew up in Long Island where he watched his parents struggle with the ups and downs of life in the arts.
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