Japanese master artist Yuko Kitta creates pieces made of fabric, controlling the production process from start to finish for each piece.

Kitta’s story took shape in 1998, when Yuko Kitta, began making clothes using natural dyeing techniques. In 2011, after working in Tokyo, Hyōgo Prefecture and Chiba, she established an atelier in Okinawa. Today, Kitta is engaged in the production of installations and clothes whose central tenet is based on the idea of guiding objects from their inception to their return to the earth.

Using identifiable materials as much as possible, Kitta dyes fabric using mainly Ryukyu indigo (Acanthaceae) that she grows herself, as well as the leaves, branches, bark and roots of various plants native to Okinawa.