Designer Kenzo Takada Dies of COVID-19 Aged 81

According to a spokesman of Takada ‘s luxury K-3 brand, Kenzo Takada, the renowned Japanese founder of the KENZO fashion label, died of COVID-19 complications. The designer died on October 4, when he was 81 years old, at the American Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.

“The K-3 brand announces the loss of its famous artistic director, Kenzo Takada, with tremendous sorrow. The world famous designer died on 4 October 2020 in the American Hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine, in France because of Covid-19-related difficulties at the age of 81, “according to the release.

Takada came to France by boat in 1965. Takada was born in 1939 near Osaka. He stayed in Paris and there, and produced almost 8,000 designs, for the rest of his career. The artist was commended for the bright graphics and floral prints he created in 1970 in Paris through his fashion line of names.

Takada ‘s earliest items were sold out of his first Jungle Jap boutique, offering a variety of colourful ensembles influenced by his travels around the globe.

The designer then opened his first flagship shop at Place des Victoires in Paris in 1976 and has since gained popularity with a variety of magazine broadcasts included on his labo. LVMH purchased then KENZO in 1993, raising the imaginative designs of Takada further in a lavish way.