kudos/soduk

[Established year] kudos 2017、soduk 2018

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.