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, from where she graduated with BA in Fashion and Textiles Diploma. After this she went to London and did a second BA at London College of Fashion specializing in Womenswear. Meanwhile she started her own luxury label LAKO BUKIA, which has been shown on London Fashion Week for 4 seasons and also on various catwalks and showrooms in Paris, Berlin, Kiev.In 2012 she opened her boutique in Tbilisi, Georgia. That same year she added a diffusion line Lolo by Lako to her brand.

Lako then had decided to move to New York to do a Masters Degree at Parsons The New School for Design . In summer 2014 she has successfully graduated from the MFA course at Parsons.

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 three seasons at Tbilisi Fashion Week.