Covid-19 claims the life of designer
05/10/2020
Founder of the Kenzo brand, Japanese designer Kenzo Takada, has died in Paris from covid-19 at the age of 81.
Mr Takada studied design at the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo and moved to Paris in 1964.
He founded Kenzo in 1970 and focused at first on women’s ready-to-wear, but he designed his first men’s collection in the early 1980s and launched Kenzo Jeans soon after.
In 1993, luxury group LVMH acquired the Kenzo brand. On learning of Mr Takada’s death, LVMH chief executive, Bernard Arnault said: “Kenzo Takada infused into fashion a tone of poetic lightness and sweet freedom that inspired many designers after him.”
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