Lako Bukia was born on October 4, 1987 in the city of Tbilisi, Georgia. She did her first BA at A. Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Art, where she graduated with a BA in Fashion and Textiles Diploma. After this Lako went to London and did a second BA at the prestigious London College of Fashion specializing in Womenswear. Meanwhile, she started her own luxury label LAKO BUKIA, which has been shown at London Fashion Week for 4 seasons as well as various catwalks and showrooms in Paris, Berlin, Kiev. In 2012 Lako opened her boutique in Tbilisi, Georgia. That same year she added a diffusion line Lolo by Lako to the brand. Two years ago Lako moved to New York to do a Master’s Degree at Parsons, The New School for Design. In the summer of 2014 she successfully graduated from the MFA course.

Lako changed the concept of her own brand and concentrated more on making self-made fabrics/digital print. After graduating from the Master’s Degree at Parsons she has done two seasons at Tbilisi Fashion week and showed last collection in Paris at MOREDASH SHOWROOM.