Ana Locking - Interview by Studio Banana TV

Ana Gonzalez founded Locking Shocking in 1996, label a year later joined who would be her partner for the next 10 years, until they dissolved the brand in 2007. During those years Ana González worked as a creative director acclaimed by public and critic and awarded with the L’Oreal Paris Award for the best young SS’03 collection and the Gran Prix de la moda Marie Claire for the Best National Designer in 2004. In 2008 she founded her new label Ana Locking and with her first collection ‘Reentry’ FW08-09 won the L’Oreal Paris Award for the Best Collection from the Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week. In September 2009 she presented her SS’10 collection in New York’s Public Library during the NY Fashion Week with her partners from project ‘4Eyes’.??In November 2009 she won the Price Cosmopolitan for the Best Designer of the year.??Ana keeps herself updated of the new artistic disciplines, as she studied in the University of Fine Arts of Madrid. That’s the reason why she has also collaborated with different cultural institutions and artistic organizations through expositions, installations, video-art, photography, seminars, conferences, classes, etc.