soduk

[Established year] kudos 2017、soduk 2018

Tsukasa Kudo launched women’s brand “soduk” in 2018. As Kudo says “soduk consists of those who wear soduk”, he does not specify seosonal themes and target, and seeks for comfortability of wearing clothes and the beauty of silhouettes, not for extreme design.
“soduk” provides fashion design with deep consideration to reality of human life.

kudos : With the designer's own internal taste and an eye that catches the real world, the brand innovates the traditional codes in menswear. The brand name means "praise”. It also contains a nuance that affirms the emergence of new values. soduk: The essence of kudos’s experimental clothing creations has been extracted and sublimated into designs more suited to modern life, and the brand continues to work with a variety of collaborators.

Born in Okinawa, Japan. After graduating from university, he entered The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. While in Europe, he gained experience as a design assistant at JACQUEMUS and JW ANDERSON and as a pattern assistant at Y/PROJECT. He returned to Japan in 2017 and started kudos. He also continues to work as a photographer and stylist, and in 2018, he launched soduk, a women's line, and in 2020, he started TSUKASA KUDO PUBLISHING as a publishing project.