Kodue Hibino

Kodue Hibino

The costume artist Kodue Hibino was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1982 she graduated from the Visual Communications course of the Design Department of the Fine Arts School of the National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo. Since her professional debut in 1988, Hibino has continued to created unique costume designs for magazines, posters, TV commercials, theater, dance, ballet and TV with a different sense from usual fashion designers. In 1984 she won the Encouragement Prize of the Japan Graphic Exhibition. In 1989 she won the Annual New Artist Award of the Japan Graphic Exhibition. In 1995 Hibino won the New Artist ward and the Shiseido Encouragement Award of the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix. In 1997 she changed her artist name from Kodue Naito to Kodue Hibino.
From August to October of 2007 an exhibition of her work titled “Hibino Kodue Works – Tashihiki no Anbai (Balancing Plus and Minus)” at the Contemporary Art Center of the Art Tower Mito. This large-scale exhibition showed a wide range of works from Hibino’s 20-year career as a costume artist and more recent works in furniture and household goods design.