Japanese Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada Loses The Battle To Covid-19
Complications linked to COVID-19, snatch another one of the world's greats out from under our noses.
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50 years after his first collection in Paris, Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada was pronounced dead from complications linked to COVID-19, in the early hours of October 4th, Sunday. Hospitalised at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the 81 year old designer was revered for his signature floral prints, and lionized for infusing a tone of ?poetic lightness and sweet freedom? into every piece of design.
Japanese Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada Loses The Battle To Covid-19
Born in the Himeji, Hy?go Prefecture of Japan, to a pair of hoteliers, Kenzo Takada?s lifelong love for fashion developed at an early age, particularly through reading his sisters’ magazines. Having briefly attended the Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kenzo Takada never graduated, and instead completed his studies at Tokyo’s Bunka Fashion College, which in 1958, had just opened its doors to male students.
Greatly inspired by La Ville Lumière and its innumerable legends, specifically, Yves Saint Laurent ? Kenzo Takada embarked on a month-long boat trip to Paris, porting every so often at Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Djibouti, and Egypt. Miles away from home, the designer first arrived at the Gare de Lyon train station on 1 January 1965. Noting the city?s...
The post Japanese Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada Loses The Battle To Covid-19 appeared first on LUXUO.
50 years after his first collection in Paris, Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada was pronounced dead from complications linked to COVID-19, in the early hours of October 4th, Sunday. Hospitalised at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the 81 year old designer was revered for his signature floral prints, and lionized for infusing a tone of ?poetic lightness and sweet freedom? into every piece of design.
Japanese Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada Loses The Battle To Covid-19
Born in the Himeji, Hy?go Prefecture of Japan, to a pair of hoteliers, Kenzo Takada?s lifelong love for fashion developed at an early age, particularly through reading his sisters’ magazines. Having briefly attended the Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kenzo Takada never graduated, and instead completed his studies at Tokyo’s Bunka Fashion College, which in 1958, had just opened its doors to male students.
Greatly inspired by La Ville Lumière and its innumerable legends, specifically, Yves Saint Laurent ? Kenzo Takada embarked on a month-long boat trip to Paris, porting every so often at Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Djibouti, and Egypt. Miles away from home, the designer first arrived at the Gare de Lyon train station on 1 January 1965. Noting the city?s...
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