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Kenzo Takada at Paris Fashion Week in February this year
Japanese designer Kenzo Takada, founder of the Kenzo fashion brand, has died after being infected by the Coronavirus, according to a statement from a company spokesman, according to French media.
Takada died at the American Hospital in Paris at the age of 81, according to the statement.
Known for his colorful and floral prints, Takada was the first Japanese designer to gain fame on the Paris fashion scene.
Takada settled in France in the 1960s and spent the rest of his career there.
His spokesman said the Japanese designer, “who has created nearly 8,000 designs, has never stopped celebrating fashion and the art of living.”
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, praised Takada in a tweet that read: “A very talented designer has brought color and lighting to his place in fashion. Paris is now in mourning for one of his children.”
“I was a fan of the brand in the 1970s when he created it. I think he was a great designer,” fashion news site WWD.com said, citing Sydney Toledano, CEO of LVMH, owner of Kenzo.
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Kenzo Takada at the Fall-Winter 1983-1984 fashion show in Paris
Born in 1939 near the Japanese city of Osaka, Kenzo Takada arrived in France in 1965 by boat and settled in Paris.
He founded the internationally known brand under his first name in the 1970s. He launched a men’s clothing line in 1983, and later, in the 1980s, other casual sportswear lines, Kenzo Jeans and Kenzo Jungle, were launched.
Kenzo sold his clothing brand to luxury clothing group LVMH in 1993 and retired from the fashion world six years later.
